JAPANESE BAMBOO BASKET ARTS
- Exquisite exhibit catalogs by the Tai Modern, the leading gallery for contemporary baskets.
- Videos curated by Joanna MacCallum show top quality exhibits and artisans at work.
- Thai Creative Design Center’s online exhibit about Beppu region’s Bamboo crafts. Click “Gallery” to see interior exhibit design or coverage at DesignBoom.
- New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters at the Japan Society, NY features non-functional pieces.
CONTEMPORARY FIBER ARTS
- Carol Eckert’s blog of beautiful contemporary baskets and fiber work.
- Tour an exhibit of american artist Ruth Asawa’s sculptures at the DeYoung Museum.
- Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers
NATIVE AMERICAN BASKETS
Evergreen State College Professor Gail Tremblay’s baskets woven of film leader at the Portland Froelick Gallery (above). She is an artist, writer, and curator of Native American art from the Mi’kmaq-Onondaga tribe. She explains the basics about her baskets in a video by the Museum of Art and Design about her piece in the Exhibit Changing Hands: Art without Reservation 3
Woven: The Art of Contemporary Native Basketry by IMNDN.orgProfile of Pat Courtney Gold, contemporary Wasco Indian basket artist of Warm Springs, Oregon includes videos that explain how her work grows out of her history. Video about imagery and heritage.- Traditional Native American Sally Bags from the Columbia River plateau at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
SPATIAL / SCULPTURAL WEAVING
- Patrick Dougherty’s twig-woven sculptures interact with the existing environment.
- Anna Heringer’s Baoxi Youth Hostel utilizes ancient Chinese rammed earth walls plus an updated version of bamboo screens to create whimsically beautiful forms. Visitors sleep in “cocoons” within the larger space.
- Four Artists at the Portland Japanese Garden
ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS
- Archiprix: top thesis projects from schools around the world.
- The RIBA Presidential Medal features submissions from UK and related countries.
- George Epolito’s Coexistence in Theory blog features dramatic digital photocollages.