When Colville tribal member Julie Edwards has a bad day, she makes a basket. Sure, there’s something therapeutic about the ...
A third-generation Indigenous basket maker is setting the record straight about his craft — it's a part of his culture, it's ...
Kelly Church’s black ash basketry anchors the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation, weaving Anishinaabe tradition, environmental advocacy, and living cultural ...
all her life, but the Terrebonne Parish resident only picked up her tribe's traditional practice of basket weaving 18 years ago, after learning that it was in danger of dying out. A representative of ...
About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Corey Alston is a rare artisan in the craft of coiled basket weaving, a ...
From cradles to water jugs, willow baskets are essential for many Great Basin Natives. “From the time we are born, we are in a basket — a willow basket,” said Leah Brady, a member of the Shoshone ...
Under the scorching afternoon sun of Bolgatanga, a rural community north of Ghana, Patience Apambila is splitting strands of dry grass in preparation for weaving them into baskets. Apambila is one of ...