Instructors
Ty Sheaffer
Ty (they, them) is a basket maker and lover of old ways of living. Their focus is on making functional and beautiful baskets from bark and wood splints with simple hand tools. Basketry is incredibly ancient and ubiquitous to human culture, and to Ty, harvesting the materials from the forest and working them into useful containers is an embodied practice of connecting with the ancestors, developing intimacy with place, and slowly unlearning the mentality of consumption. During their residency, Ty is excited to study and experiment with some of the lesser-known traditions of basketry from Western Europe and Scandinavia. When they’re not making baskets, you might find them singing with friends or cooking up acorn bread.