Barbara Heins on Teaching Workshops

Barbara Heins on Teaching Workshops

Shaelagh Cull

Barbara Heins

Malting Tower at the Tett Centre

After I joined the Guild, I very quickly found out about a Master Weavers Course, which was being held in St. Lawrence College in Brockville. And I signed up for that course. And by the time I finished that course, over a period of five years, I'd learned a lot, and I was a teacher already. So I ended up starting to teach workshops at that point. I've been doing basketry quite a bit then too, so I started teaching basketry so probably early 90s or so I started teaching. I used to teach the beginning weaving workshop pretty regularly, but that was a while ago. I haven't taught it in a while. I've taught a transparency workshop. I've done different things, Huck lace, I do a lot of lace weaving, but probably the one most people would know me for is the baskets. So I usually teach a different basket every year. And the basketry course tends to draw people who are not guild members as well. So it's nice and sometimes we get those people to join the guild as well.