Shannon Weber at Guardino Gallery

Guardino Gallery, 2939 NE Alberta St., Portland, Oregon will feature the basketry and woven forms of Shannon Weber in their MAIN GALLERY for their September exhibit (August 26-September 28). Gallery Hours: Tues. 11 to 5 PM, Wed. through Sat. 11 to 6 PM, Sun 11 to 4 PM. The Artist Opening will take place August 26, 2010 ~ 5-8 PM.

The Guardino Gallery is located on the corner of 30th and NE Alberta and the Guardino Gallery and Gift shop is right next to it. Both are open Tuesday through Sunday. Some of you may remember visiting Guardino Gallery during the gallery tour held in conjunction with the National Basketry Organization's 2009 Biennial Convention “Traditions and Innovations V” in Portland.

Every "Last Thursday" of the month throughout the year Alberta Street hosts an Art Walk. The Guardino Gallery's reception for their new shows are scheduled monthly. The evening starts at 6:00 PM and officially goes to 9:00 PM. Guests are invited to meet the artists and share in the refreshments. The Gallery changes shows every month and has done so since Sal and Donna Guardino purchased their buildings in 1997.

Shannon's work which she calls “new” aboriginal forms for the current millennium, was featured in the Spring 2010 Issue of the NBO Quarterly Review.

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Father and Son: 107 Years of Bamboo Art, Monden Kogyoku & Yuichi

Father and Son: 107 Years of Bamboo Art, Monden Kogyoku & Yuichi is hosted July 24 to July 31, 2010 at TAI Gallery, Santa Fe. This show has inspired 94-year old Monden Kogyoku to create a stunning new body of artwork. His son, 68-year old Monden Yuichi, not to be outdone by his father, also created a wonderful series of pieces.

TAI Gallery/Textile Arts, located in Santa Fe New Mexico, is one of the world's finest galleries featuring the art of traditional textiles and Japanese bamboo art. Since 1978, owners Mary Hunt Kahlenberg and Robert T. Coffland have hosted this selective gallery, combining her renowned knowledge of the field with his contemporary art sensibility to offer visually dazzling, museum quality textiles and bamboo art from around the world. 

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2010 BasketMakers Calendar ~ July

2010 BasketMakers Calendar ~ July, 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 July. 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

Biography of Clara Darden

Biography of Clara Darden

Cultural historian Ivan Gaskell, the Winthrop curator of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts at the Harvard Art Museum has authored a biography of Chitimacha River-cane basketmaker Clara Darden (c.1829-1910) in the July-August 2010 issue of Harvard Magazine. The article includes a photo gallery of stunning double weave and single weave Chitimacha rivercane baskets.The article is also available as a .pdf


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