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An inclusive community whose purpose is to promote awareness, inspire creativity, & foster appreciation for the heritage and artistry of basketry.

It's Traditional Craft Tuesday and today we have t

It's Traditional Craft Tuesday and today we have this beautiful white oak backpack made by Micah Wiles of Cedar Creek Farm in Kentucky. We agree with Micah that the connection between the weaver and the material is a special one. We love the color of the heartwood and the choice of accents.

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With white oak basketry the majority of the work is in the splitting down of the material, the weaving goes quickly once you have a good pile of splints. And it is well worth the wait, this white oak is so much stronger and beautiful than something commercially available like rattan. Its toughness can also make it harder to work with, but forces you to be more in tune with the grain and nature of the wood. I ended up with a lot of heartwood, which is redder, because the logs I was splitting were drying out on the outside where the whiter sapwood is. Really enjoyed using this variation to accent the basket. Getting closed to being finished then time to make some straps!
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Monday Connections Check out the Smithsonian Craf

Monday Connections
Check out the Smithsonian Craftoptimism an online virtual marketplace being held April 24 - May 1, during Earth Week, celebrating creative ideas in response to climate change. You can find more details at www.craftoptimism.si.edu Great way to support artists and their work without leaving home. The show features 100 artists with a collection of hand-crafted or small batch produced art made in America.
Studio Herron by Dee Clements offers a collection of textile work and woven vessels that focus equally on form and function. Chill Baskets takes a contemporary approach to traditional basket weaving techniques passed down through generations of indigenous artisans from Akwasane Mohawk Territory.
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Today we’re previewing Liaison, a two-person exh

Today we’re previewing Liaison, a two-person exhibition at Centre d’exposition Leo-Ayotte, Shawinigen, Quebec. Featuring Marie-José Gustave and Gérald Paren, it will be on view April 8 to May 16, 202.
"Using paper, cardboard and rope, the two sculptors transform these common materials using artisanal and universal techniques of knotting, braiding and knitting. The sculptures bear witness to the transmission of traditions in all societies and despite migrations.
The knotted paper cords and the knitted and braided paper thread evoke the ties we create with other cultures and the constraints to which we adapt to build our identity.”
Visit mariejosegustave.com to view a video of the artist discussing her work at her 2018 solo exhibition, Métissages, liens tissés
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Welcome to NBO Studio Saturday! Today we would lik

Welcome to NBO Studio Saturday! Today we would like to introduce you to Teresa Audet; a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

NBO Featured Friday Anne Bowers "Anne Bowers' use

NBO Featured Friday Anne Bowers
"Anne Bowers' use of color is signature in her work with ribbed basketry, round reed or flat splint weaving. She loves to teach and share her knowledge and perspective on the woven form."
Enjoy the incredible talent of Anne Bowers, this #FeaturedMemberFriday You can see more of their work at https://nationalbasketry.org/ann-bowers/ or check out more information at https://tamarackfoundation.org/directorylisting/anne-bowers/

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NBO TBT Preparing Dom na boo (Corn) Soup (2011) b

NBO TBT
Preparing Dom na boo (Corn) Soup (2011) by Kelly Church

From All Things Considered VI; juried by Bruce W. Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections at the Racine Art Museum and Ann McMullen, Curator and Head of Collections, Research and Documentation at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts 2011

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Join the Fowler Museum tomorrow, April 8, for a co

Join the Fowler Museum tomorrow, April 8, for a conversation with artist Meghann O’Brien & textile scholar Elena Phipps about Indigenous knowledge and creative practice. Meghann's "projects engage specialized techniques of basketry and weaving, and use mountain goat wool, cedar bark, and other earthly materials to connect to the rhythms and patterns of the natural world." Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/curators-choice-reframing-the-past-with-meghann-obrien-and-elena-phipps-tickets-148667774315.
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As always, @zestinferna says it beautifully. #Trad

As always, @zestinferna says it beautifully. #TraditionalCraftTuesday
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Craft community is precious. Cultivate it, protect it!

Since entering this web of people who make things as vocation, I have seen two clear paths trodden in the field - the well worn way of competition and scarcity, of kicking each other down and trying to get ahead; and the more fun and wily way of collaboration and sharing, of joyous and powerful growing together. I’m ever grateful for the friends & community willing to tramp down the latter together, despite our conditioning and its complications.

On another note, I imagine it would be very challenging to truly tune into Willow and the craft of Weaving and churn out rigidity and separatism. The nature of willow is flexibility, strength, resilience. Willow grows swiftly by rhizome and root and wants to share itself and be shared. To splice things apart while weaving things together feels counterintuitive. May I keep surrendering to the teachings of these plants and choose the way of community and generosity.

Knee deep in a week of willowing around with basket sage @willow_and_ash_baskets
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Love what you see on the NBO’s social media, con

Love what you see on the NBO’s social media, considering becoming a member and support our social media post, our magazine B+ and plans for a conference in the future, scholarships and more. You can get a membership at https://nationalbasketry.org/nbo-membership/

Also you can now keep up with what other NBO members are creating by using the #nbomember hashtag on Facebook and Instagram. Then you can follow the hashtag (#nbomember) and see everyone’s latest post of their work.

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This Sunday we’re time-traveling to “Narrbong-

This Sunday we’re time-traveling to “Narrbong-galang”, a 2019 exhibition by Lorraine Connelly-Northey at Roslyn Oxley9 in Sydney, Australia. “ ...comprised of 100 colossal bags that the artist created from found materials such as rusty tin and fencing wire, which she sourced from rubbish dumps and farms along her tribal boundaries. For the past 19 years, Connelly-Northey has been refashioning debris into objects that recall those used by traditional Aboriginal Australians. Her work addresses issues of history and race, and the importance of safeguarding traditional knowledge.”

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NBO Featured Friday Mary Ann and Bill Smith "Know

NBO Featured Friday Mary Ann and Bill Smith
"Knowing that basketry is one of the oldest crafts makes me feel connected to the idea of gathering and weaving what we find around us just as our ancestors did"
Enjoy the incredible talent of Mary Ann and Bill Smith, this #FeaturedMemberFriday You can see more of their work at their website at https://oakweaver.weebly.com/

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NBO TBT Shirohako (2010) by David S. Chambers F

NBO TBT
Shirohako (2010) by David S. Chambers

From All Things Considered VI; juried by Bruce W. Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections at the Racine Art Museum and Ann McMullen, Curator and Head of Collections, Research and Documentation at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts 2011

#basketry #fiberart #basketmaker #basketweaving
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