2011 BasketMakers Calendar ~ January

2011 BasketMakers Calendar ~ January
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I have created a set of 2011 Basketry Calendar pages that are sized to print out on 8.5" x 11" paper. Here is the page for the month of January. 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

Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

Willow Stories: Utah Navajo Story Baskets

Willow Stories: Utah Navajo Story Baskets, a Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibition, will be presented from April 02, 2011 through May 28, 2011 at St. George Museum in St. George, Utah. Willow Stories features basketwork created by four generations of Navajo women, and illustrates how the role of the basket has changed over time in their society.

In Navajo society, baskets have traditionally held dual roles, both as vessels to hold household goods and as containers in various sacred ceremonies. Over time, a combination of factors, including the gradual replacement of these functional baskets with modern containers, and the strict taboos dictating how and when to weave ceremonial baskets, led to a decline in Navajo basket weaving. During the 1970s, a revival of traditional basket weaving took place, with the focal point of activity located in the Utah Navajos communities living in the Monument Valley area. Inspired by the art of the prehistoric Mibres and Anasazi, neighboring tribes, and their own native patterns, these modern Navajo weavers developed a new hybrid style that use animal images, human figures, and illusionary geometric designs to depict traditional beliefs, stories, and legends.

Curated by the Utah Arts Council's Folk Art Program, Willow Stories features the work of ten of contemporary Navajo basket weavers from Utah, and includes photographs as well as artist biographies. The exhibition will be located at St. George Museum, 47 East 200 North, St. George, UT from April 02, 2011 through May 28, 2011. St. George Museum is open Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm - 3rd Thursday 10am - 9pm. For more information on viewing the exhibition, please call (435) 627-4525 or go to http://sgcity.org/artmuseum/exhibititem.php?id=116.

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Contained Excitement: Pleasures of the Void

CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY PRESENTS

CONTAINED EXCITEMENT: PLEASURES OF THE VOID

December 11, 2010 –January 22, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 11th from 5-7PM

Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to present a cross-cultural, multi-genre exhibition of magical and/or visionary objects called Contained Excitement: Pleasures of the Void. The show concentrates on the way the artist controls the sensual expectations of space in an object, which may or may not take leave of its utilitarian purpose. It is more than an attractive shape; it transgresses against expectations. The void is never really empty; it can contain mysterious objects or it can be the Mystery itself. In this observation is a secret of the soul of sensuality itself; the strategic withholding or timing of information in order to charge something with energy. Revelation is the artist’s slave.

This exhibition also ushers in a deepening fascination as a gallery with the nexus points of Art and Design when craft is the tool of process that submits to more conceptual ideas. We will mix Art Brut, ancient and contemporary ceramics, New Basketry, and other media to introduce a new group of artists to the gallery but the central focus will be the Power object.

Included will be Chinese ceramic reliquaries for keeping wrapped sutras, the transformation of Native American Sweetgrass into deconstructions of molecular perfection in Debora Muhl’s work; the nervous and dark recycling in the forms made by Jerry Bleem and John Garret; the beckoning toward initiatory revelation in Susan kavicky and Lissa Hunter; the brooding presence in the lithops-like ceramic sculptures of Kenji Gomi; the Zen poems inscribed in the early ceramics of the Buddhist nun Rengetsu; hidden books of healing and magic from the tribal peoples in Southern China; the incredible repression and resultant freedom in the ceramics boxes of Shuji Ikeda where the clay is woven like bamboo; the opening of soul to the elements of wind and light in the sweeping bamboo constructions of Charissa Brock met by the dark compression of clay into Place and Mortality in the ceramics of Tim Rowan; the erotic beckoning of release through restraint and role-play in the bondage bed made by Sullivan Walsh; the New Baskets of JoAnne Russo; and the ancient feminism of the ceramics of Avital Sheffer. A special inclusion will be an installation of Choson-period tea bowls from Korea and two intricate and rare woven rattan shields from early Kongo.

Artists also included are: Emogayu, Lizzie Farey, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Deirdre Hawthorne, Mei-Ling Hom, Kentaro Kawabata, Gerri Johnson-McMillin, Shozo Michikawa, Drew Nichols, Akira Satake, Hyungsub Shin, Polly Adams Sutton, Akiko Tanaka, Tyrome Tripoli, Shannon Weber, and others.

For further information please contact: Shari Cavin, Randall Morris, or Mariko Tanaka at Tel: 212-226-4768, or email: mtanaka@cavinmorris.com.

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2010 BasketMakers Calendar ~ December

2010 BasketMakers Calendar ~ December
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 December. 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