Our First Day

Welcome to Basswood Folk Arts! We are a group of folk artists and folk arts lovers based in Oswego, NY.

Oswego is a wonderful history-filled town at the mouth of the Oswego River in southeast corner of Lake Ontario. It has solo crafters and artists, lots of small crafting groups, a fine arts association, a passionate community theater group, a music hall with a fabulous traditional music line up, an amazing quilt shop, a beautiful artist cooperative shop, and a state university with a fantastic arts program. What it doesn’t have is a place for crafters to easily meet or for the individual groups to come together, share ideas, and create a folk arts community. We’d like to fix that.

We are starting out with two goals:

Our first is to see if our community would like to attend a folk arts festival in September 2024- and if so, to host that festival.

The second is to create a four season, dedicated space for creating, learning, and sharing.

More on those goals in later blogs!

Craft on, fellow folkies,
Patti