Basketmakers, Basket Artists, Basketweavers and Fiber Artists from around the world
with Last names beginning with M.
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Julia Marden
Aquinnah Wampanoag from Hatchville, MA, Julia twines baskets using designs derived from
the northeast woodlands cultures.
Dr.
Margaret Mathewson
Expert in ethnobotany and natural basketry skills. She teaches the process of materials preparation and technique in traditional Western North
American native basketry and European willow techniques.
Connie and Tom McColley
White oak and other hardwoods are incorporated with turned wood using traditional
technique in remarkable contemporary basket forms by this husband and wife team from
Chloe, WV.
Arlene
McGonagle
This contemporary basket artist from Swansea, MA is profiled in the
January 2003 issue of FiberArts Magazine. Her work frequently features linen
wrapped wire mesh hardware cloth and paper. Hand written lines of verse and
metaphor all figure into her expressive vessels.
John McGuire
John is an internationally known Nantucket and Shaker basketmaker, teacher and author
from Geneva, NY.
John McQueen
Contemporary artist well known for the use of natural, hand gathered materials in his
fiber art. Occurrence
1998 is included in Limb to Limb.
Read Susan Kavicky'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.
Anette H. Meier
Traditional basketmaker from Manorville, NY. Offers Nantucket, Shaker, or
Country baskets in cane, ash and reed including a Nantucket cradle.
Doris
Messick
Contemporary basketmaker, teacher and writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She
specializes in the use of natural materials, which she grows or gathers from the wild.
Sally
Metcalf
Using folding, pinning, sewing and twining techniques Sally creates contemporary
three dimensional forms from native materials of the Pacific Northwest including
big leaf maple bark, iris, sea grass, acorns and
other naturals in combination with waxed linen cord, copper pins, metal washers
and other man-made elements.
Roman
Melnichenko
Willow basketmaker from the Ukraine offers a variety of household baskets,
boxes, shelves, frames and lampshades. Skeined willow is a specialty.
Cynthia
Minden
Teacher and exhibiting fiber art basketmaker from Denman Island, British
Columbia in Canada. Her work frequently features figurative forms abstracted
from the human figure.
Norma
Minkowitz
This fiber artist from Westport, CT is known for her crocheted open forms, stiffened into
hard but transparent forms making statements about containment.
Marilyn
Moore
Known to many because of her active conference teaching schedule this Seattle, WA fiber
artist works in coiled pine needle as well as twined wire with bead embellishment.
Laura Monroe
Basketmaker from Los Ojos, NM
sells the pine needle baskets she makes from her shop called Funny River Trading
Company.
Zoe Morrow
This contemporary basketmaker uses shredded money to plait her baskets.
Debora
Muhl
Basket artist from Spinnerstown, PA. Specializes in sculptural coiled baskets of natural
materials including sweetgrass.
Judy
Mulford
FiberScene displays a selection of Judy's knotted and looped waxed
linen and
gourd pieces. This California artist's work reflects heavily on the theme of family.
More of
Judy's work at browngrotta Gallery.
Kathleen Myers
Nantucket Lightship basketmaker, historian and lecturer, working on the island of
Nantucket.
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