Profiles of Featured Members.
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
I love to work with textiles, threads, fabric, paper and fibers. Using a variety of materials including muslin, linen, embroidery thread, rope, hemp and other soft materials, I like to weave, sew, paint and stitch pieces that reflect some aspect of the world around us. My sculptural baskets often include asymmetry, whimsy, bumpiness, curves and
Connecting with my culture & heritage and love for Wyoming through folk-artistry Adrianna spent her childhood summers helping her grandparents in the plains of Colorado peeling freshly picked corn and using the husks to braid crosses, god’s eyes, and dolls. She immediately fell in love with creating with her hands and learning about her heritage
Learning to knit and sew as a child, Bonnie has been creating “baskets that hold ideas” since her early textile classes in undergraduate school where she majored in art with a fiber concentration. After her initial mastery of the loom, she was introduced to basketry as an art form by a new young professor who
Born in Milan and raised in Pavia, Italy, multidisciplinary artist Giuse Maggi draws inspiration from the susceptibility of organic and inorganic materials and their potential to manipulate, shape, form and introduce her to new techniques for creation. Working with glass for over three decades, it was only in 2013 that she became aware of the
