Connect with the basketmakers and artists who make red and yellow cedar bark baskets.
Joan
Carrigan
Basket maker and basketry teacher from Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada. Using
roots, Arbutus, Cedar and other barks, sedges, rushes, water iris and other west
coast natural materials she creates traditional and sculptural vessels.
April
Churchill Davis A conversation with this Old Massett cedar basketmaker discusses the
harvesting of cedar roots and cedar bark.
Delores Churchill
Delores E. Churchill is a Native American artist of Haida descent who has been weaving baskets since 1972, having learned from her mother, Selina Peratrovich.
Delores was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship Award in 2006 and was a participant in the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She is a renowned weaver of baskets, hats, robes, and other regalia. Baskets and Branches: A portrait of Delores Churchill
is a 6 minute work in progress of a documentary created with the
University of Alaska Southeast.
Kathey
Ervin
This basket artist and teacher from Sequim, WA offers a wide range of workshops,
Northwest natural materials basketry supplies, finished baskets created using
Pacific Northwest naturals such as Red and yellow cedar, Northwest sweetgrass (Scirpus
americanus) and antique bone or shell buttons.
Marlien K.
Hennen Marlien gathers her own red cedar bark in summer and three to six months
later processes it into strips, a very labor intensive task, creating wall
hangings, lamps, hats, container baskets, bags, pots and more. She loves to hike
on the beaches and in forests to gather the materials that she incorporates into
her weaving. She offers finished baskets, materials including raw and prepared
red cedar and workshops.
Irene Jimmy
Audio files of an interview with Irene Jimmy, Sitka tribal elder and
basketmaker. The interview details Tlingit Gathering and Use of Plants within
the Sitka National Historical Park.
Sharle
Osborne
Sharle Osborne and Kathey Ervin focus on cedar basketry from the Olympic Peninsula in
Washington State.
Mary Neeraja Snowdon
Mary's main medium is red cedar bark, which has been used for thousands of years by NW Coast First Peoples.
Polly Adams Sutton at
Jane Sauer's Gallery Adding wire and metal foils to the traditional cedar bark and sweetgrass
basketry materials of the Pacific Northwest, Polly creates contemporary basket
sculpture.
Pam Talsky
Pam has since traveled to Thailand with the Royalwood tour and has made 9 trips to Alaska since 1998, to learn Pine Needle Basketry from Jeannie McFarland and Native Haida weaving with Delores Churchill. She also goes to harvest and prepare her own western red and Alaskan yellow cedar barks and Sitka spruce root. Pam teaches around the country at conventions. She also teaches in her private studio in Waterford,
WI when she is not on the road.
Lisa
Telford
Haida cedar basketmaker from Alaska. Lisa Telford was born in Ketchikan, Alaska,
and now lives in Everett, Washington. She learned basketweaving from her aunt,
the well-known Haida basket-maker Delores Churchill.
Cedar Basketry
Additional resources on cedar basketmaking, cedar supplies and cedar bark basketmakers.
Cedar:
Tree of Life To The Northwest Coast Indians by Hilary
Stewart, Bill Reid
Information on gathering, processing and using cedar bark, withes and roots
for basketry along with much other cedar lore.
