Sweetgrass Creations

Explore the traditional art of Carolina Gullah basketry with a fifth-generation weaver. Learn the coiling technique to create a handwoven basket from sweetgrass, bullrushes, and pine needles, lashed with palmetto palm strips. Benefit from the instructor’s generational wisdom on how to use these naturally grown materials to form a beautiful basket using patience and love. Join us for this immersive week of Gullah basketry history and heritage. All levels welcome. $

$250

Lynette Youson is originally from the Seven Mile community in Mount Pleasant, SC. She is a fifth-generation basket maker who learned her craft as a child over 50 years ago from her great-grandmother, Maggie Jefferson Williams. Although she now calls Moncks Corner home, Lynette travels back to her roots daily to weave and display her wares in the Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Pavilion at Memorial Waterfront Park. The former co-chair of the Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival Association, she is a crusader for the fading art form and is passionate about preserving its cultural and historical importance in the Lowcountry. She also has an extra-large Rice Fanner Basket in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.