Courses Lectures Exhibitions Craft Fairs Baskets4life Burkina Weave Other Projects Previous Exhibitions Gallery Publications CV Vissinggaard Basketry Museum Treehouse   PROJECTS 2011 Proverbs, an exhibition in Arles, France A collaboration with Christophe Sawadogo from Burkina Faso. Studying basketry in Zambia and Namibia, April 2011 Studying basketry in Germany and France with Joan Carrigan, June 2011 Craft fair in Risør, Norway, July 2011 Craft fair in Vallabregues, France, with Baskets4life, August 2011 Travelling to Burkina Faso, October 2011 In order to develop the shopping basket project, in particular bicycle baskets and setting new projects ahead. FORMER PROJECTS Transperency and baskets at Frederecia Messecenter, 2009 Focus on bark, Vissinggaard 2009 Focus on bark was a masterclass with Joan Carrigan, Tim Johnson and Anna Maria Väaitainen as teachers. Special guests were Dororthy Gill Barnes and David Drew. We worked with bark in every thinkable ways. Focus on bark, Vissinggaard 2009 [ 81 pictures ] Lichtenfels, September 2009 The basketry fair in Lichtenfels in Germany had it’s 30th anniversary in 2009. Due to that Baskets4life were invited to create a large installation in front of the church, teach at the German basketry school, exhibit our own shopping baskets as well as the African shopping baskets at the ”Stadtschloss” and to give a number of talks on Danish basket makers, Danish traditions and the importance and innovation of the basketry going on in Denmark. We also got the opportunity to show and sell our own basketry and the African baskets in 3 stands in the market itself. It was an exciting and demanding challenge for the group. We thoroughly enjoyed being part of the huge basketry fair and it was extremely rewarding to feel what 9 people can do together when tasks are divided among us and where the dialogue is open and imagination for solving problems is huge. We hope and believe that Danish basketry once again has profiled itself as worthy, new and interesting and hope that Baskets4life can be used for similar projects in the future. Visit from Lichtensfeld, October 2010 [ 12 pictures ] Africa Now, Dialog 09, Århus, Denmark, 2009 Transparency - An exhibition in collaboration with Christophe Sawadogo from Burkina Faso. Transperance, 2009 [ 8 pictures ] Participation in the African Market with baskets and interactive teaching with the audience. Curved wodden balls made in Burkina Faso were transformed into individual designs. Baobab trees made by street kids from Ouagadouga were painted by Danish school kids and so each tree got it's own story. Dialog 09, Africa Now [ 11 pictures ] Ceramics & Willow - A challenge, Archantus, Risør, Norway, spring 2008 Course in Israel, spring 2008 Teaching and experiencing the basketry world with Joan Carrigan, fall 2008 Build up a basketry workshop at Kologh Naba in Bukina Faso in colaboration with Anne Lyngsgaard and Annette Balle and Hanne Vistisen, fall 2008 Santa Claus' Workshop in Kologh Naba, Burkina Faso. Santa Claus' workshop in Kologh Naba, Burkina Faso [ 10 pictures ] Basketry course in Israel with participation from Jewish and Arab women We visited Michal who has established a little paradise where date palms is the theme. Her goal is to show how palm trees have been used in different ways throughout time. Israel [ 14 pictures ] We also visited a number of women projects who all promoted craft activities.