TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN BASKETRY TODAY

"TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN BASKETRY TODAY"

A Special Exhibition from the Permanent Collection of the National Basketry Organization and Selected Basket Makers from North Carolina

June 5 – July 23, 2010

John C. Campbell Folk School
Dining Hall, Brasstown NC

8:15 AM – 7:00 PM

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5th from 2PM – 5PM

Free and open to the Public

For more information call: 828-837-1280

This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.”

Also Sponsored by The National Basketry Organization

Eco-Art: Materials Recycled, Repurposed, Re-envisioned

An exhibition of imaginative and environmentally conscious artworks made of natural materials and transformed everyday items will continue through May 31, 2010 in Wilton, Connecticut. Artifact Design Group and browngrotta arts will present an environmentally themed art exhibition, Eco Art: Materials Recycled, Re-purposed, Re-envisioned. The exhibit will include works of two types. The first group will be works composed of natural materials, including bark, branches, pussy willows and porcupine quills. The second will involve everyday items, such as clothespins, newspapers, encyclopedias and safety pins, which have been transformed into art.

The exhibit will feature work by more than a dozen artists, including Markku Kosonen a woodworker and basketmaker from Finland, Birgit Birkkjaer of Denmark, whose baskets incorporate porcupine quills, Dorothy Gill Barnes of Ohio who creates “dendroglyphs” by scarring bark on trees scheduled for harvest and Chris Drury an environmental artist from the UK. Also included will be work by California artists Gyöngy Laky and Karyl Sisson. Laky makes vessels of telephone wire and sculptures that combine branches and nails and screws; Sisson re-purposes domestic items like cloth tape measures as art.

The exhibition will held be at Artifact Design Group at 2 Hollyhock Lane (Rt. 7), Wilton, Connecticut. For more information call browngrotta arts at 203-834-0623; www.browngrotta.com

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From The Woods works by Dorothy Gill Barnes (Ohio Craft Museum Presents, Nov 21-1999 - Jan 23, 2000)

Aaron Kramer Solo Exhibit : Salvaged

SALVAGED: Aaron Kramer and the Secret Life of Objects
May 23 , 2010 – September 12, 2010, Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

Opening Reception Saturday | May 22 - 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

If artist Aaron Kramer could have it his way, there would be no waste! “Trash is the failure of imagination,” is his philosophy while he embraces commonly discarded objects as his inspiration. Opening on May 23, Salvaged, Aaron Kramer’s first solo museum exhibition, offers a peek into the mind of this full time artist, and part time alchemist.

Artist Talk for Salvaged: Aaron Kramer and the Secret Life of Objects
Sunday | June 27
3:00 pm

Trashy Fun with Aaron Kramer
Saturday | July 17
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Kinetic Kreations Workshop with Aaron Kramer
Sunday | August 29
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

2010 Basket Calendar ~ May

2010 Basket Calendar ~ May

Originally uploaded by BasketMakers

I have created a set of 2010 Basketry Calendar pages that are sized to print out on 8.5" x 11" paper. Here is the page for the month of May. You can view the rest of them on http://www.flickr.com/photos/basketmakers/ and see more basketry graphics on http://basketmakers.com/topics/graphics/graphicsmenu.htm

Happy May Day

Celebrate May with a May Day Basket

Wishing you a happy May Day!

Fill a basket of flowers and hang it on the door of someone you love.