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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 …

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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.

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Pat Hickman – “Art Baskets: Breaking Boundaries” Event Lecture

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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Getting Close!

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Help the National Basketry Organization promote basketry!  Send us close-up photos showing details of your work. The best images will be selected for NBO’s social media and printed materials: calendars, note cards, posters etc.

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Sally Metcalf in “What Women Create” Magazine

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Enjoy a wonderful (and colorful!) profile on NBO member Sally Metcalf in “What Women Create” magazine.  Read the article here.

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2019 NBO Lifetime Achievement Awardees Joanna Schanz and Jane Sauer

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This award recognizes  the work of individuals whose work has influenced the field of American basketry and acknowledges superior achievement over the course of an entire career. Learn more here

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Resources for Artistic Inspiration, Financial and Business Assistance

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Here at NBO we realize this is not only a personal issue, it is one that is shared on a global level. The entire world is sharing in some version of the same experience. We are all human and that makes each of us vulnerable while reinforcing our shared humanness. This can be a time …

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NBO Members in “Currents” at Museo

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NBO members Nancy Loorem Adams, Lanny Bergner, Danielle Bodine,  Jill Nordfors Clark, Barbara DePirro, Sharon Kita, Dorothy McGuinness, Bill Roeder, Peeta Tinay, and Judy Zugish are all represented in “Currents 2020”, at the Schack Art Center in Langley, Washington. Museo has invited 48 Northwest Designer Craftsmen artists to present a survey of what is current …

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