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• Dartmouth artist Gordon wins Portia White Prize
  Dartmouth basketry and textile artisan Joleen Gordon is the winner of the 2007 Portia White Prize.
   

• Joleen Gordon Named as Finalist for 2007 Portia White Prize
  Joleen Gordon, a Dartmouth basketry and textile artisan, who combines her artistry with her passion for preserving and promoting the traditional basketry practices of Nova Scotia been selected as one of three finalists for the 2007 Portia White Prize, a $25,000 annual award celebrating excellence, innovation and expression in the arts.
   
• Basketmakers Face Stiff Competition from Knockoffs
  Charleston's sweetgrass basketmakers are finding it difficult to compete with baskets made in China. Lowcountry sweetgrass basket "sewers" are concerned about cheap knockoffs from abroad. The article includes tips about some of the telltale characteristics of an import so that collectors can recognize the difference between the two.
   
• Basketmakers Recipients of NEA National Heritage Fellowships
  The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded 2007 National Heritage Fellowships to basketmakers Julia Parker and Pat Courtney Gold.
   
• Pat Courtney Gold Recipient of NEA Award
  On June 30, 2007 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Gold and 11 other artists one of the nation's highest honors for a folk and traditional artist, a National Heritage Fellowship.
   
• Willow in Community
  This project is a collaboration of the Arts Council and the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park. Volunteers work with Bonnie Gale, planning and constructing a community based living willow structure.
   
• Northwest Basketweavers Gather
  Native basket weavers from throughout the Northwest recently met for the annual gathering of the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association.
   
• Lilly Baker, Maidu Basketmaker dies at age 95
  This basketmaker from a prominent Californian basketmaking family will be remembered for preserving the art of Maidu basket weaving. Contributions may be made to a memorial scholarship fund for young weavers through the California Indian Basketweavers Association, P.O. Box 1348, Woodland, CA 95776-1348.
   
• Michael Kane's Magnum Opus - "The Last Dance"
  Read the September/October 2006 Nantucket Today article about the four and a half foot high Nantucket Lightship style sewing basket Michael took four years to make using more than 400 carved parts and 3,281 feet of cane.
   
• Siletz basketmaker keeps the art alive
  Siletz basketmaker Bud Lane discusses how he works to keep the basketry traditions of his ancestors alive in this article from Indian Country Today. He makes cradle baskets, ceremonial hats, cooking baskets and working baskets for carrying such things firewood, roots and clams using traditional hand gathered natural materials such as hazel sticks, spruce roots, maidenhair fern, bear grass and woodwardia fern.
   
• Museum Basketry Collection Being Digitized
  A three member curatorial team from Columbia Basin Basketry Guild including Lynn Beard, Kaye Van Valkenburg and Jane Town spent three days going over some of the more than 1,500 baskets collected by the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History to help create a new kind of digital artifact library.
   
• The April 2006 issue of American Style Magazine has a feature article about Contemporary American basketry entitled "Baskets Without Boundaries". The article is written by Kevin Wallace, co-author of Baskets: Tradition & Beyond. Basket artists including Arline Fisch, Jan Hopkins, Gyonky Laky, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Nancy Bess Moore, Ferne Jacobs, Lenore Tawney, Jeanette Ahlgren, Kay Sekimachi, John McQueen, Lindsay Rais, Charissa Brock, Susan Kavicki, Beth Nobles, Jennifer Maestre, Jill Powers, Judy Mulford, Carol Eckert, Karyl Sisson, and John Garrett are mentioned along with numerous gallery owners, dealers and even the BasketMakers website.
   
• The March 2006 issue of The Crafts Report has a basketry focus. The cover pictures a copper wire woven basket by Suzanne Shafer-Wilson. Other articles feature Deborah Muhl's coiled sweetgrass basketry and Jan Hopkins is featured in the Online Exclusive: Weaving Wonder into Traditional Basketry. Numerous other makers and resources received mention as well.
   
• Debora Muhl's Coiled Sweetgrass Basket is the cover image on the January/February 2006 issue of Crafts Business Magazine. View Debora's work on her own site.
   

• Natural Origins - Contemporary Basketry 2006
  July 06 - 30, 2006. The Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle, WA. Features the work of Jan Hopkins, Mary Merkel-Hess, Elizabeth Whyte Schulze, Marilyn Moore, Polly Adams Sutton, Jill Nordfors Clark and Dona Anderson. Local news coverage.
   

• Pillars of Culture Honored
  Basketmakers Ed Carriere, Bill James, his mother Fran James and the late Bruce Miller were among the twenty seven tribal elders who were honored at the Seattle Art Museum for their determination to keep Native American culture alive.
   
• The April 2006 issue of American Style Magazine has a feature article about Contemporary American basketry entitled "Baskets Without Boundaries". The article is written by Kevin Wallace, co-author of Baskets: Tradition & Beyond. Basket artists including Arline Fisch Jan Hopkins, Gyonky Laky, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Nancy Bess Moore, Ferne Jacobs, Lenore Tawney, Jeanette Ahlgren, Kay Sekimachi, John McQueen, Lindsay Rais, Charissa Brock, Susan Kavicki, Beth Nobles, Jennifer Maestre, Jill Powers, Judy Mulford, Carol Eckert, Karyl Sisson, and John Garrett are mentioned along with numerous gallery owners, dealers and even the BasketMakers website.
   
• The March 2006 issue of The Crafts Report is in stores now. The issue has a basketry focus. The cover pictures a copper wire woven basket by Suzanne Shafer-Wilson. Other articles feature Deborah Muhl's coiled sweetgrass basketry and Jan Hopkins is featured in the Online Exclusive: Weaving Wonder into Traditional Basketry. Numerous other makers and resources received mention as well.
   
• Native American Art Auction Sets Record Price For Basket
  Native American, pre-Columbian and tribal art was offered and sold by Bonhams & Butterfields on December 5, 2005. The top lot of the day set a new world record price for a Native America basket sold at auction, eclipsing that set in these salesrooms in 2004. The unidentified successful bidder paid $336,250, three times the presale estimate, for a 1929 Paiute polychrome basket of degikup form by Tina Charlie, offered from the collection of Ella Cain.
  
• Pioneer In The Fiber-arts Movement Ed Rossbach dies at 88
  The world of new basketry has lost a noted leader.
  Obituary
  
• Kai Chan Receives the 2002 Saidye Bronfman Award
  The Saidye Bronfman Award is Canada's foremost distinction for excellence in the fine crafts. The Bronfman family created the $25,000 prize in 1977 to honor their mother on her 80th birthday. The prize is awarded annually to an exceptional craftsperson.
  
• Bamboo Basketry Weaves Interest As Fine Art
  Feature article from CNN Style Correspondent, Elsa Klenisch about Japanese bamboo artist Yako Hodo. Robert Coffland, bamboo basketry specialist is quoted.
  
• Nantucket Lightship Baskets by Martha Lawrence
  New England Antiques Journal Volume XVIII, No. 11, May 2000, features a cover article about Nantucket Lightship Baskets by Martha Lawrence.
   

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