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Michael Davis
Contemporary basket artist working primarily in round reed. Frequently his pieces have painted accents or embellishments.
Michael is represented by the Connell
Gallery and has been featured by HGTV.
Laurie
dill-Kocher
Contemporary basketmaker and studio artist from Rochester, NY.
Rob
Dobson
Contemporary basket artist who uses found objects,
construction materials and manufacturing components such as wire, nuts, bolts and steel strapping to
assemble basket forms. Represented in this instance by American Art Company.
Wendy Durfey
Studio artist and teacher of contemporary basketry from Ontario, Canada uses
archival paper with overlays and embellishments of acrylic paint, silk fiber,
copper wire and beads. Some of the techniques she employs include plaiting, silk
fusion, knotless netting and looping.
Christopher
R. Ellison
Contemporary basketmaker from Bloomfield, NY working in steel and brass.
Wendy
Ellsworth
Bead artist, basketmaker and teacher from Quakertown, PA uses colorful
beads as "tiny photons of colored light" to create vessels.
Lizzie Farey
Artist and basketmaker from Scotland uses hedgerow materials such as rowan, larch,
dogwood and hazel, as well as Scottish grown willow to create traditional, as
well as contemporary sculptural pieces.
Linda Fifield
Artist creates vividly colored vessels using Czech glass beads using an ancient
netting stitch over turned wooden forms.
Carla and Greg Filippelli
Husband
and wife team that is known for their random weave vessels of round and flat
reed.
Norma
Andersen Fox
Date nut palm, Muehlenbeckia vine, birch bark and other natural materials are
woven into the work of this Scandinavian inspired basketmaker.
Lindsay
Ketterer Gates
Basketmaker from Pennsylvania working in wire, wire mesh and found objects such
as pistachio nuts in techniques like knotless netting and looping. Exhibits widely in
prestigious juried exhibitions and fine craft shows. Known before her marriage
as Lindsay Ketterer Rais.
Polly
Jacobs Giacchina
Contemporary Fiber artist explores form and structure with the
twining technique, using
natural fiber, date palm seed fronds and embellishments.
Carol Hart
A traditional Salisbury, CT basketmaker and author of
Natural Basketry.
Mary Merkel Hess
The Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project presents a profile of this fiber
artist/basketmaker. The profile includes a biographical sketch, audio interview
clips, an artist's statement and images of some of her work.
Jan
Hopkins
Basketmaker from Everett, WA creates contemporary baskets and vessels
using nontraditional materials such as citrus skins, lotus pods and fish skin.
Lissa Hunter
Lissa lives and works in Portland, Maine exploring the coiled basket form for
sculptural possibilities far beyond its traditional beginnings. She has taught
coiling, embellishment, design and creativity for many years throughout North
America. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Arts and Design in New
York, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and The Renwick Gallery of The Smithsonian
Institution, among others.
Mary Jackson
Widely known for her Gullah coiled sweetgrass basketry.
Ferne
Jacobs - Dancer
Wax linen thread sculptural art basket by Ferne Jacobs. On display
in the Snyderman-Works Online Gallery.
Susan Jamart
Contemporary basket artist from Berkeley, CA. Uses multi colored plaited elements in
these pieces, producing unplanned variations in color and mood.
Gerri Johnson-McMillan
Basket artist known for her Fishbone Vessels and Knotted Fiber Sculptures. Albacore pectoral fins (fish bones) and monofilament (fishing line) are used to create
woven fishbone vessel forms, waxed linen cord is used for her knotted fiber sculptures and wire and beads for a series of sculptures resembling underwater
life forms.
Christine Joy
Twisting, undulating sculptural baskets of native twigs such as willow, red osier dogwood, red maple and cottonwood. Her work can also be seen at
browngrotta.
Susan
kavicky
Accomplished black ash basketmaker from Island Lake, IL. Her site features photos of her
baskets, an artist statement and information on the workshops she offers from her home
studio. Read Susan's
review of the 2004 site-specific installation by John McQueen at the Racine
Art Museum (RAM) in Wisconsin that was published in Fiberarts Magazine.
Mark Kelz and
Beth Peterson
A husband and wife team who create "modern traditional" baskets of Oregon
Ash with intricately carved handles.
Aaron
Kramer
Contemporary artist from Venice Beach, CA works with found objects,
reclaimed trash, recycled and alternative materials such as scrap street
sweeper bristles, coffee stirrers and strapping material to create woven
and welded organic sculptural forms. Flickr photos tagged
Aaron Kramer.
Gyöngy
Laky
This San Francisco textile sculptor, is a Professor at the University of California,
Davis. She uses orchard debris, park trimmings and street tree prunings for the
construction of her baskets questioning our relationship to our environment.
Patti
Lechman
Fiber artist from Memphis, TN is known for her knotted vessels often
embellished with glass beads. Featured here on the American Art Company site.
Jennifer
Falck Linssen
Full time studio artist living in Boulder, CO creates sculptural vessels she
calls "katagami baskets©". They combine basketry traditions and
classical forms with pictorial katazome style handcarved stencils in paper and
metal.
Kari Lonning
Visit the personal web page of this contemporary basket artist from Ridgefield, CT
known for her dyed rattan "hairy technique" double walled
basketry designs. Author of The Art of Basketry.
Dona Look
Working in plaited and stitched White Birch, this basket artist is featured in the White House Collection of American Crafts and the PBS project Crafts in
America Dona Look (also
see).
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