Profiles of Featured Members.
My weaving practice is an act of searching for forms that don’t exist yet. My baskets are based on mathematical rules, but organic in form, near-life but not alive, referencing living matter in color and form while resisting any specific taxonomy. The colors that I use are often inspired by meat, organs, and bone, but […]
Katie Shulman is an artist, organizer, arts administrator and educator from Washington, DC. She lives, makes art and builds community in Detroit, Michigan. Katie holds an MFA in Studio Art from Syracuse University and a BFA in Fine Art from The Penny W. Stamps School at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her work
B. Jean Larson (b. 1993, Southeast Iowa) is an emerging artist and researcher who focuses on the intersections of utilitarian textile craft, queer theory, and posthumanism. By reappropriating and reclaiming traditional textiles, they question ideas of uselessness and usefulness in systems that consume objects, people, and land. As their most important metaphor, B. Jean thinks
Drawing inspiration from traditional basket weaving, I create textile sculptures using plastic waste as my primary medium. This series explores the intersection of the ancient twining technique with contemporary, discarded materials. These sculptures and baskets are made from plastic yarn repurposed from Amazon envelopes, reflecting themes of consumption and sustainability. My work challenges viewers to
Martha Bird is a Minnesota-based studio artist who specializes in sculptural basketry. Blending traditional techniques with contemporary practices, she creates large-scale conceptual forms. Bird’s work draws from her professional expertise and life experiences to explore the human body, manifestations of trauma, and concepts of resilience, energy, and growth. A meditative and grounding aspect to her
Working with paper using traditional and contemporary basketry techniques, Lynne creates sculptures and vessels that are driven by concepts. Her work is often very personal, expresses current affairs or address issues she is pondering. Color is an important element in her art and working with paper allows her to control the color, texture, pattern and
Rose Covert uses natural materials to weave sculptural forms. Using reimagined basketry techniques, Rose creates woven landscapes that twist and travel around themselves. Her work is evocative of the natural world they are created from. They hold an element of dance and movement in their shapes and pull the viewer in with their dynamic tensions. Rose
As a Fibre Artist based in Sydney, Australia I have been weaving for 15 years. Originally started as a hobby which bloomed into a full time career in 2021. I focus on looping, twining and random weave. I predominantly use foraged material – mostly Australian vines and recycled electrical copper wire to weave wall sculptures. My
As a basket maker, Shannon Lucas-Westrum has had works at shows and galleries throughout Minnesota. She is an arts instructor and avid maker, demonstrating basket making during studio tours and arts events for more than 10 years. In 2017, she was awarded a Region 2 Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, that took her to Ireland to
My interest in contemporary basketry has evolved over a forty year career in the fiber arts, specifically embroidery. After venturing south at age 19 from my birthplace, Victoria BC, to the University of Washington in Seattle, I completed my BA in Interior Design. Rather than return to Victoria to work in my father’s retail furniture
