Rooted: Samples of Southwest Baskets
Exhibition Dates
May 24, 2022 - September 1, 2023
Location Details
Display on view (lower level)
Featured Image Details Below
ROOTED: Samples of Southwest Basketry represented important basket-making styles from its collection.
This exhibition celebrated the range of forms and purposes of basketry in the Southwest. Native American Southwestern basketry is known for its incredible innovation and creativity as artists create a conduit to an ancient technique with their unique contemporary vision. Native American basket weavers have transformed different grasses, reeds, roots, dyes, and sometimes even baling wire into works of art that are unmatched in beauty and complexity. Basketmaking or weaving is one of the oldest known Native American arts with basketry made in the Southwest for over 8,000 years. Baskets have a wide range of purposes from utilitarian to ceremonial and reflect both changes in the environment and introduction of new materials and techniques. As an example, the availability of aniline dyes in Navajo trading posts allowed basket weavers to incorporate an entirely new medium into their design concepts.
Featured Image Details
- Unknown Artist (Apache), Untitled (Basket), c. pre-1930, Willow and devil’s claw
- Annie Antone, b. 1955 (Tohono O’odham), Untitled (Miniature Basket), c. 1990, Yucca and aniline dye
- Unknown Artist (Akimel O’odham), Untitled (Basket Jar), c. 1900, Willow and devil’s claw
- Unknown Artist (Apache), Untitled (Basket), c. 1900, Willow and devil’s claw
- Linda Lou Guzman, n.d. (White Mountain Apache), Untitled (Basket), c. 1990, Devils’ claw and yucca
Previously On View
January 11, 1987 – February 21, 1987
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women
The Native American Arts and Service Organization sponsored traveling exhibit, Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage-Contemporary Art by Native American Women.
The exhibition focused on Hopi weaver, Ramona Sakiestewa’s work and included traditional, contemporary, and commissioned pieces.
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