GOLD HILL — Today, class, we have a lesson in making baskets. We will not be making just any old basket, but fine ash wood baskets using traditional methods of preparing the wooden “splints.” Many ...

Kelly Church’s black ash basketry anchors the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation, weaving Anishinaabe tradition, environmental advocacy, and living cultural ...

Pollard came into the field through her mother, Peggy, who owned a craft store and worked for L.L.Bean as a professional basket weaver before retiring. 30 years later, Pollard tapped her mother for ...

A basketry class with the Experimental College at the University of Washington nearly three decades ago was a turning point for Everett artist Dorothy McGuinness. “Until then, I had no formal art ...

Shame on me. I have been writing this home column now for 16-plus years and have written about what are, arguably, some pretty minor topics. Take, for instance, the color white, how to choose a yard ...

From an 18-by-20 foot studio in Hogansburg, NY, Carrie Hill makes baskets out of black ash and hand-gathered sweetgrass, continuing a long Mohawk... Nov 13, 2019 — From an 18-by-20 foot studio in ...

Disappearing: In the early days, it was almost mandatory for every member of the family among different tribes, especially the girls, to learn to how to make at least one handcraft . However, this is ...