Profiles of Featured Members.
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
Matt Tommey is an American basketry artist and teacher from East Texas. His sculptural basketry work is collected nationwide and has been featured in various magazines. He teaches online basket weaving classes, leads a global artist mentorship program called “Created to Thrive” and was recognized as one of the Best Art Mentors in 2018 by
I have been making fiber art off and on for more than forty years, focusing for some time now on using coiling and knotting to make sculptural basketry forms, working with pine needles, waxed linen thread, other cords, and copper wire. My mother was an artist and gallery owner who championed indigenous folk art and
My foray into basketry was ignited when I signed up for a workshop with Lissa de Sailles at the National Basketry Conference 2023. Lissa taught a sculptural twinning workshop involving botanical works – baskets and wearable art. Currently I am experimenting with how I will integrate basketry methods into my sculptural objects, installations, and wearable
