Bark Basket

Instructor: Andrew Lee

Day & Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025

Time: 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Tuition: $65.00

Ages: 18 and Up

All levels are welcome. No experience required.

Students Please Bring:

• Apron or work clothes.
• Note taking materials.
• (Optional) A snack and/or water bottle. Filtered water is available in the classroom.

Explore the traditional art of folded bark basketry. Historically, bark baskets were used for cooking, gathering, hauling water, and storing food. Students will learn which barks are suitable for creating containers and how it's harvested, folded, and dried. The instructor will supply a dried and folded piece of bark to make into a bark basket during class. Various finishing and embellishing techniques are presented. 

An additional fee for materials provided by your instructor for this workshop is estimated at $20.00 THIS FEE IS PAYABLE TO THE INSTRUCTOR at the time of the workshop. Material fees may change depending on the number of participants and price of materials at the workshop. *Payment by cash or check is required for materials fees. 

* We contract with local and regional instructors for short workshops that generally require a minimum of 4 students to run. If you have any questions, you’re welcome to call Olive’s Porch for up-to-date enrollment information. To respect our instructor’s time and preparation for workshops please contact us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend a workshop. Cancellations made more than 14 days prior to a workshop will be issued a full refund. Cancellations made 14 or less days prior to your workshop are not eligible for a refund. If Olive’s Porch needs to cancel a workshop for any reason, we will issue a full refund. See our General Information and Policies page on our website for more information.

About Instructor: Andrew Lee is a certified educator with over two decades of teaching experience. His fascination with history began by finding Native American artifacts in Northwest Georgia as a young boy. He credits this time in his life as crucial in developing a deep interest in understanding past cultures. While at the University of Georgia, Andrew met master primitive skills instructor Scott Jones. After taking Jones' flintknapping class, the fuse was officially lit. More than twenty years later, through teaching in elementary and middle schools as well as in the correctional setting, the constant passion in Andrew's educational life has been pursuing history, including learning more about primitive skills. The bark baskets and stone bladed knives that he creates are ways that he expresses this love of history and nature.