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Jeanne Drevas, Sperryville basket weaver and potter, can add another star to her list of artistic accomplishments.
As well as exhibiting her fine baskets, Drevas has been asked to demonstrate the basketry techniques she uses to create her vine sculptures July 11 and 12 at the fifth Annual American Crafts Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
A potter for more than a decade, Drevas began to find work at the wheel repetitious and unchallenging and transferred her artistic talents to basket weaving a couple of years ago.
Her skills were immediately acknowledged with an invitation in 1980 to exhibit at Baltimore’s Winter Mart, one of the east coast’s most prestigious craft shows. Last year, her baskets were photographed as art work for the posters advertising the Virginia Museum’s annual craft show in Richmond, where she was also an exhibitor.
Jeanne’s baskets are based on the design of the traditional split oak melon basket made in the-* Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Honeysuckle and grapevines that smother trees on the hillsides near Sperryville are used for the handles and rims. The shape of the vine dictates the shape of the basket and the search for the perfect vine gives Jeanne the perfect excuse for rambling through the woods that surround her mountain home and pottery studio.
Once she’s collected the vines, she settles down for hours at a time, using her hands, her teeth, even her
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