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AUGUST 10-16, 2026 WILDACRES - WEEK 1
RAEUS CANNON - LET THE LIGHT SHINE THROUGH
Class Name: Let the Light Shine Through
Class Description:
In this workshop, I’ll show you a unique technique I’ve developed to make an illuminated vessel out of yarn, natural materials, rocks, beads, even twigs or leaves. You’ll have lots of creative license as we discover what your specific vessel wants to be. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to make the structural base for the vessel and how to embellish it with whatever you like. Warning: Be ready for changes – they always happen.
This class is perfect for capturing a soft stone or mineral that’s too soft for most jewelry (ie: fluorite). If you’d like to bring a stone/rock/mineral to capture, think SMALL. I recommend a width of less than 1 inch; depth less than 0.125 inches.
All levels of experience welcome. Creativity is the main requirement.
Class Fee: $80 + class supplies (as needed)
What students should bring with them:
• cabochon or small rock you would like to capture (optional)
• scissors for cutting yarn
• small lighter for cutting beading thread
• apron or smock that can get spattered
Your class fee covers:
• use of needed tools, supplies, and instructions
• vessel base, 1 hank of yarn
• needles and thread
• tea light
• plastic gloves
Lab Fee: $80
Estimated Materials Cost: Class supplies (as needed)
Prerequisites: None
Bio:
Raeus Cannon
There are moments when the world falls away — when the familiar patterns of living fray and dissolve, leaving only silence, memory, and the barest thread of self. It was in such a moment that I found my way back to fiber. At the late age of 49, I found I was learning to knit. It started me on a journey to find my artistic heart again.
My practice began not with a grand design, but with a single stitch. Then a square, then a bead. It became a conversation with my hands and my heart. Over time, those small woven acts gathered force — becoming vessels, garments, sculptures, and bridges to connect.
Fiber, for me, is more than material. It is voice. It is structure. It is resilience made tangible. I work not just with yarn, but with wood, wire, steel, and beadwork — whatever the story demands.
I teach others not merely how to weave or sew or knit, but how to imagine -- how to create. I teach how to see.
My work has been exhibited internationally in Kyoto, Belarus, and throughout the United States. I have taught at institutions such as Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and demonstrated at Southern Highland Craft Guild's Craft Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Yet beyond all exhibitions and accolades, my truest work is this: to weave a bridge between the seen and the unseen, the living and the lost, the remembered and the dreamt.
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