You’ll never look at a basket the same way once you’ve woven one,” says Natalie Boyett, owner of the Chicago Weaving School in Irving Park. “When you see how things are put together, it’s like you’ve ...

To be chosen for a National Heritage Fellowship is to be recognized as a kind of national treasure. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and celebrates traditional and folk ...

DULUTH - It was like a Norman Rockwell painting. Four people hoisted a large log onto their shoulders. Through the snow, they trudged about 100 feet from a ground-level workshop to a Congdon Park ...

Need a place to stash your red or white wine? The Hansen Museum will host a basket weaving class with instructor Marsha Jensen of Manhattan, Kansas, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 20 in the Hansen Museum ...

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In 1994, Ethel M. Gill learned basket making from a co-worker, and hasn’t looked back. It was like a match made in heaven that combined her eagerness to learn something new with a natural talent for ...

Heckmann of Waterloo, who is an instructional coach for Vinton-Shellsburg School District, has taught basket weaving at Vinton Nature Center and other locations for a number of years. “This is my 25th ...

While it’s often thought that basket weaving is a dying art form, it’s actually very much alive and well all across the world, and even right here in Michigan. “It still exist in a lot of places, you ...

Basket weaving is an art traditionally practised by women as a hobby and a source of income. However, elderly men from the Ihwagi area in Mathira, Nyeri County, have taken on bamboo basket weaving as ...

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 ...

This weekend will offer a time for culture sharing and appreciation when several dozen indigenous artists leave their towns and villages and travel to the Museum of Northern Arizona for the Native ...