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Art Speaks: The Visual Language of Basketry
Online / Talk / Basketry
Join Textile Center for a special Art Speaks conversation on “The Visual Language of Basketry” featuring fiber artists Ann Coddington, Carol Eckert, and Pat Hickman in conversation with art historian Dr. Diana Greenwold (Smithsonian) as they explore trends in contemporary basketry.
This online conversation coincides with Basketry Now 2025 (July 29 - October 18, 2025), a special exhibition co-presented by Textile Center of Minnesota and the National Basketry Organization (NBO), and juried by Gyöngy Laky. Showcasing 63 contemporary basketry artists working in a variety of materials including foraged and repurposed, and using numerous techniques including twining, weaving, coiling, looping, netting, and interlacing, the work in Basketry Now 2025 explores early traditions of making as well as sculptural forms that push the category of basketry in new directions.
Textile Center is a national center for fiber art based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our mission is to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber art. Textile Center offers classes and related educational programming for all ages, levels, and abilities. In addition to our classroom spaces, Textile Center’s facility features fiber art galleries with rotating exhibitions, an artisan shop which supports working artists, a 300-seat auditorium, a professional-grade dye lab, a natural dye plant garden, and the Pat O’Connor Library, one of the nation’s largest circulating textile libraries open to the public.