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In the Spotlight
10th Anniversary of NBO
Lillian Pitt assists Mary Schlick in her presentation
at the the Portland Art Museum entitled:
Beautiful Usefulness - Baskets of the Columbian River Basin
Visit the coverage of the 2009 National Basketry
Organization 10th Anniversary Conference in Portland, Oregon on
BasketMakers Journal and view the video clips of several of the NBO
presentations on
BasketMakers YouTube.
New Basketmakers
Journal
The world
wide web has changed markedly since the beginning of BasketMakers.com back
in 2001. A new lexicon of web technologies has developed since that time and
in hopes of staying current I have been working intently on a variety of
means to keep you up to date on the news of the basketmaking community. I
have taken the wraps off my new web journal and I hope you will consider
subscribing. I have also been working on extensions of the main site onto
YouTube,
Google
Calendar,
Facebook,
Twitter and
Flickr.
I will welcome your feedback on these new features. Please leave your
comments, subscribe or follow me. If you request friend status on
Facebook
or any of the other social networking sites, be sure to mention your
involvement in basketry.
Tradition/Innovation:
American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art
This major endeavor includes a traveling gallery exhibition as well as an online presentation. The
extensive online presentation features artist interviews, podcasts,
visual galleries and national arts education standards based
learning materials.
Be prepared to stay a while if you visit the site.
The combination of contemporary craft and traditional art in this exhibit offers visitors the opportunity to explore the “threads” between two different approaches to creating artwork and also to compare the approaches of traditional and contemporary artists.
The concept of mastery and what makes a "master" artist is prominently
discussed.
Participating basketmakers include
Clay Burnette,
Herburt Jerome Dixon,
Yvonne Grovner,
Bessie Johnson,
Mary Jane Prater,
Henrietta Snype,
Billie Ruth Sudduth,
Leona Waddell and
Carol Welch.
Tradition/Innovation will tour to one museum in each of Southern
Arts Federation’s nine partner states in its first tour. Educational events
at the various locations will supplement the exhibit tour:
Tour dates confirmed as of January 2008 include:
January - April 2010 Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL
November – December 2010
One Convention Center
Plaza, Hattiesburg, MS
July - October 2010 Louisiana
Art & Science Museum Baton Rouge, LA
Basketry
Events
Basketry exhibitions, festivals, retreats, conferences, guild events, symposiums,
seminars and workshops. Who, what, where and when. Upcoming events and reviews of past
events of interest to basketmakers, hobbyist or professional.
Call-to-entry opportunity
listings.
Google Basketry Events Calendar
(beta)
A consolidated calendar of
basketry events including museum, gallery and guild exhibits of baskets;
basketweaving conferences, conventions, master level basketry workshops,
classes, demonstrations, and instructional venues; lectures by and about
basketmakers or basket artists, major crafts shows, markets, festivals and sales
events featuring traditional and contemporary basketmaking, along with call to
entry opportunities for fiber artists and basketweavers. |
