Mnemonic Productions

Celebrating Women as Creators of Culture






Location:
FRENCH GARDEN
8050 Bodega Ave
Sebastopol, CA
(707) 824-2030

The Pomo Project and Mnemonic Productions
proudly present

 

SUSAN BILLY 

 

 Master Basket Maker &
Pomo Tradition Keeper 
 
Tuesday, October 29 ~ 7 pm 
French Garden private meeting room
  
SUSAN BILLY studied basket weaving with her great-aunt, world renowned Pomo basket weaver Elsie Allen, for 16 years. D-Q University, Davis),awarded her an Associate of Arts degree in Native American Studies for this work. Born in Hot Springs, South Dakota, Susan moved to Hopland in 1971 to learn about her native heritage. She is a tribal member of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians. Her father, Ignatius L. Billy was a full-blooded member of Hopland Rancheria.
 
Susan has participated in many native cultural and community events and has traveled all over the country as a Native American artist, speaker, demonstrator and curator at the Grace Hudson Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Oakland Museum, DeYoung Museum, Brooklyn Museum and National Museum of the American Indian. A founding member of the California Indian Basketweaverʼs Association, she is co-author of Remember Your Relations: the Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends.
 
SUSAN BILLY is currently sole proprietor of Bead Fever in Ukiah, where her daughter and granddaughter are following in her creative footsteps. 
   
Please join us for an exciting evening of cultural history and insight.  
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This free event is organized by Mnemonic Productions**, a local collective dedicated to celebrating women as creators of culture. 
 
** We are Leslene della-Madre, Theresa Dintino, Rebecca Evert, Joan Marler, Jana Muhar, and Constance Piesinger.