FAC hosts basket weavers exhibit

  • For the Enterprise
  • Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:16pm

Don’t miss your chance to view the Edmonds Arts Commission’s basketry exhibit, now in its final weekend at the Frances Anderson Center.

Featuring weaving artists Joyeanna Chaudiere, Marilyn Moore, and Polly Adams Sutton, these members of the Seattle Weavers Guild approach the artform in very different ways.

Using hand dyed reed, Chaudiere creates whimsical, organic, airy baskets — some with a shape reminiscent of jelly fish. The curled “tendrils” are embellished with beads and the body of one basket has been dipped in paper pulp. She works in other fiber techniques including loom weaving, papermaking, felting, stitchery and soft sculpture. Chaudiere is currently a member of the Edmonds Arts Commission.

Marilyn Moore’s love of fiber arts grew beyond childhood embroidery, knitting and crocheting when she learned spinning, weaving and basketry as an adult. Moore works with fine gage, colored metal wire to create vessel forms physically and metaphorically and has expanded her work into woven jewelry forms as well. Her award winning work is featured in many periodicals and weaving books including Fiberarts Design Books, and “Basket Traditions and Beyond” by Leir, Peters and Wallace, and can be found in public and private collections around the country.

Polly Adams Sutton uses more traditional basketry materials, incorporating cedar bark from logged forests and sweet grass from the tidal flats. The flexibility in these materials gives her the opportunity to work on asymmetrical shapes and designs, allowing the natural curve of each piece of bark to determine the form of the completed piece. She exhibits her work in galleries, as well as at SOFA (Sculpture Objects &Functional Art) Chicago. One of her sculptural baskets was recently chosen for the cover illustration of 500 Baskets.

Both Marilyn Moore and Polly Adams Sutton are widely known basket weavers who teach their techniques at workshops and conferences locally and nationally.

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