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

This Sunday we're visiting C. Contemporary Gallery

This Sunday we're visiting C. Contemporary Gallery in Melbourne to see the work of Doug Johnston in the group exhibition, “Traditional Techniques – Contemporary Modes”, on view until February 18, 2022

"Doug Johnston (b. 1979) is an American polymath designer whose work transcends the traditional delineations of fine art and design. Concentrating on works that utilise a process of coiling and machine-stitching cordage based on traditional boat-building techniques, Johnston clearly references a long history of human technologies including the bags and basketry of the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.”

@cgallerycontemporary @hawktrainer
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#sculpture #sculpturalbasket #3D

It’s NBO Studio Saturday! Welcome to Linda Tapsc

It’s NBO Studio Saturday! Welcome to Linda Tapscott's studio in Portola Valley, California. www.LTapscott.com, @tapscott_art

#art #artist #basket #basketart #basketform #basketmaker #basketry #basketweaving #basketweaver #basketryjoinhands #buyart #buycraft #craftsman #craftshuman #craftsmanship #collectart #environmentalart #fiberart #fibers #handmade #madeintheusa #nationalbasketryorganization #nbo #nbostudiosaturday #sculpture #studiosaturday #3D

NBO Featured Friday Danielle Bodine "This last ye

NBO Featured Friday Danielle Bodine

"This last year has been a time of experimentation, discovery, and play in my studio. I’ve had the opportunity to organize “my stash” of fabrics, yarns, tubing, wires, beads and found objects I’ve been gifted and gathered from all over the world and have been using these “treasures” to create new work. I’ve chosen the ancient basketry technique of coiling to create these pieces, a process I find both meditative and relaxing – a perfect choice for these unique times. I enjoy playing with my creations in my studio and putting them in different scenarios like the “CV19 Munchers” boarding a boat to go save the world from Covid. “CV19 Munchers to the Rescue”
(This is a piece that was in the SDA Surfacing 2021 virtual exhibition and talk.)"

Enjoy the incredible talent of Danielle Bodine, this #FeaturedMemberFriday You can see more of their work at https://nationalbasketry.org/danielle-bodine/ and at their website https://www.daniellebodine.com/

Become an Enhanced Member and get your work shown on Featured Friday. https://nationalbasketry.org/nbo-membership/
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NBO TBT Memories (2011) by Judy Mulford From A

NBO TBT

Memories (2011) by Judy Mulford

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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For January, Wednesdays video posts will be focusi

For January, Wednesdays video posts will be focusing on timelapses of the creation of baskets, or using basketry techniques to create larger works.
The second in this series is a random woven instillation by Patrick Dougherty. "See the entire start-to-finish process of contemporary artist Patrick Dougherty's creation of "Windswept" at the BYU Museum of Art" (2018)
.https://youtu.be/AYV7sebygV4
Post your own timelapses and use the hashtah #nbotimelapse . Also, post it in the comments below. If you want to know how to do this there are directions in the comments of January the 5th post. Link of this video in our bio.

#TraditionalCraftTuesday We so often find the wor

#TraditionalCraftTuesday
We so often find the words 'tradition' and 'innovation' side-by-side. This Sweetgrass basket by Nicole D. Williams of Charleston, South Carolina, is a lovely example of what traditional innovation looks like.
#JustBeautiful
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#REPOST @sweetgrasssewsbynicole Finally finished this commissioned “Jean” this morning. I’m tired, y’all.
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#Repost @lindalscherz with @get.repost ・・・ E

#Repost @lindalscherz with @get.repost
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Excursion Adirondack Pack Basket with oak stain and black webbing harness looking to go on adventures with someone. Have one on your wishlist? This one is ready to go.

NBO will be reposting images from IG posts that are tagged with #nbomember which is a tag for members to use to share their work. So use the hashtag #nbomember and let us see your work.

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#lindlscherz #adirondacks

NBO Monday Connections NBO Monday Connections #Re

NBO Monday Connections
NBO Monday Connections

#Repost @froelick_gallery with @get.repost
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Show closes on January 29th so make your plans now!
We are pleased to present Gail Tremblay’s latest exhibition entitled Shattering Images. Instructed in ash splint and #sweetgrass #weaving techniques by her #Mi'kmaq and #Onondaga aunts, for nearly 40 years, #Tremblay has #woven #baskets using repurposed lengths of ethnographic and Hollywood #film to comment on the cinematic representation of #Indigenous life and people.
This exhibition features the Windwalker suite—four large baskets, in which Tremblay weaves white film leader and 35mm film around cylindrical plexiglass forms. Looped stitches of film point up and down from the surface. Individual frames, retaining a magenta glow, reveal scenes from the movie #Windwalker. Released in 1980, the dialogue was spoken entirely in the #Cheyenne and #Crow languages, though it starred the white English actor Trevor Howard in the title role of the aging Cheyenne chief. While Windwalker billed itself as the most “authentic” #Native American-legend film ever made, controversy erupted when it was mischaracterized as a foreign language film and subsequently rejected for consideration for an #Oscar in that category. In addition, a selection of baskets woven over the past decade call attention to so-called ethnographic #documentary films in which Indigenous—in this case, #Inuit—peoples in the late 1960s were asked to reenact traditional practices from the past while omitting modern cultural adaptations—a more subtle form of #misrepresentation. Exquisitely beautiful and striking in their physical presence, Tremblay’s film baskets reclaim Indigenous wisdom and identity, while at the same time, cut deep into the heart of a cinematic unconscious laying just beneath the skein of U.S. #American #history.
See their posts at @froelick_gallery on Instagram and their Facebook post for more details at @FroelickGallery for more details.

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Today we’re visiting “Maren Hassinger: We Are

Today we’re visiting “Maren Hassinger: We Are All Vessels’, an 2021 exhibition at Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.

1. We are ALL vessels capable of compassion.
2. We are all equal. We share our humanity.
- Maren Hassinger

"Hassinger looks to the vessel for its rich history and symbolism, for its resonance with the human body. Scale brings these objects in direct communication with the viewer, while their anthropomorphic design sparks a sense of recognition.”

inglettgallery.com
@susaninglettgallery
@marenhassinger

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#sculpture #sculpturalbasket #3D

Welcome to NBO Studio Saturday! Today, we're visit

Welcome to NBO Studio Saturday! Today, we're visiting Jackie Thomas' studio in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. https://www.pinterest.com/jthomas760/jackie-thomas-new-fibers-sculptures-jgt/

#art #artist #basket #basketart #basketform #basketmaker #basketry #basketweaving #basketweaver #basketryjoinhands #buyart #buycraft #craftsman #craftshuman #craftsmanship #collectart #environmentalart #fiberart #fibers #handmade #madeintheusa #nationalbasketryorganization #nbo #nbostudiosaturday #sculpture #studiosaturday #3D

NBO Featured Friday Melinda West "I’m grateful

NBO Featured Friday Melinda West

"I’m grateful to live in a place where a culture of weaving has existed since time immemorial, where there are trees, wetlands, and spaces for plants to grow. Inspiration for art and lessons for life are found in abundance through the seasons of pruning, gathering, weaving, and replanting. My hope is that the generosity and aesthetics of these materials will live on in my work."

Enjoy the incredible talent of Melinda West, this #FeaturedMemberFriday You can see more of their work at https://nationalbasketry.org/melinda-west/ and their website at https://www.melindawest.com/

Become an Enhanced Member and get your work shown on Featured Friday. https://nationalbasketry.org/nbo-membership/
#basketry #fiberart #basketmaker #basketweaving
#nationalbasketryorganization #featuredmemberfriday

NBO TBT Dusk (2007) by Norma Minkowitz From Al

NBO TBT

Dusk (2007) by Norma Minkowitz

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
#nationalbasketryorganization #nbotbt #ATCVI

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