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Penobscot basket maker Theresa Secord wins $100,000 award Secord was the founding director of the Maine Indian Basket Makers Alliance for 21 years, and her work is in private collections and ...
Basket Maker Dat So La Lee’s Artistry Was a Means of Survival. Meet Dat So La Lee, a Washoe basket weaver whose signature degikup style preserved her cultural heritage and offered a means of ...
May: I always worked with my hands, and I would make something and move on. I called it craft hopping. I'd hop, hop, hop, hop. And then one day I found somebody was holding a basket and I said ...
CHARLESTON — Basket makers have sewn baskets in the South Carolina Lowcountry since the 17th century. The tradition has been preserved at the hands of the Gullah-Geechee people, descendants of ...
“Of Baskets and Borers” weaves the stories of early 20th century Abenaki basket-makers with contemporary art, and examines the environmental changes that are threatening the very existence of ...