NBO Members in “Mandatory Color”
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Juried by Amie Adelman, Professor of the College of Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in Denton, this online SDA International exhibition examines the use of color as a response to world-wide social distancing and quarantine. NBO members Pamela Becker, Sun Smith-Foret, and Danielle Bodine have artwork in the exhibition. Danielle’s work, …
Lissa de Sailles in “Containment”
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Enjoy a tour with NBO member Lissa de Sailles as she takes us through her solo exhibition at Gallery76 in Sydney, Australia.
NBO Presents: A Studio Tour with Katie Grove
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Spend some time with Katie Grove at her studio in New York’s Hudson Valley. She’ll be showing us her outdoor and indoor space. As she states on her website, it is “Fine Art Basketry and Nature Inspired Arts”. Nick DeFord, Program Director at the Arrowmont School of the Arts, is our host.
Workshops for Online Learning
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Due to the unusual number of workshop cancellations, NBO is providing a FREE, temporary resource for any basketry instructors to list their on-line workshops. To list your workshops, send an email to: Basketry Workshops Online Please contact the instructor with any questions and/or payment arrangements. (NBO does not endorse or produce any of these workshops.) …
Shan Goshorn Exhibition at the Gilcrease Museum
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The Gilcrease Museum is hosting an exhibition of the work by Shan Goshorn, on display through March of 2021. Here are two short films examining Shan’s life and legacy. Explore the legacy of Shan Goshorn in this short film by FireThief Productions preceded by an interview with film director Sterlin Harjo and their curator of …
Canastromania: Or How Basket Fever Transformed American Basketry from 1890 to 1940
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Kristin Schwain, co-curator of “Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America” presents a lecture and slideshow, “Canastromania: Or How Basket Fever Transformed American Basketry from 1890 to 1940.” The event took place at the Whatcomb Museum in Bellingham, Washington, during the exhibition Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America.
Pat Hickman – “Art Baskets: Breaking Boundaries” Event Lecture
Basketry News, Members in the News
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Pat Hickman gives the closing lecture for All Things Considered IX: Basketry in the 21st Century, presented by the National Basketry Organization at the Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston, Massachusetts. Pat recounts the evolution of basketry as an art form through the work of four pioneering basket-weavers, her own cohort of boundary breakers …
NBO Presents!
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NBO is introducing a new program called NBO Presents. Please join us for the first event in a series of interviews, lectures, get-togethers and other programming open to all NBO members and the greater arts community. FIRST UP: Sarita Westrup is an artist living and working in Penland, North Carolina. Her personal textile and sculptural …
Generational Basketmakers of the Cherokee
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Every Cherokee basketmaking family has distinctive creative techniques and in studying different families work there are criteria of making which reveal each family’s unique style.
Getting Close!
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