Resume
Selected Exhibitions
“Art Evolved: Intertwined”, National Basketry Organization and Studio Art Quilt Associates, traveling exhibit including Yellowstone Art Museum, MT, Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Art Museum, WA and Fuller Craft Museum, MA, 2023-2027
“Craft Forms 2024”, 29th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, 2024
“NWCraft 2024”, Northwest Designer Crat Artist, 2024
“Small Expressions 2024”, Handweavers Guild of America, Wichita, KS, 2024
“Every1 2024”, National Basketry Organization – a Virtual Exhibit, 2024
“Small Expressions 2023”, Handweavers Guild of America, 2023
“Every1 2022”, National Basketry Organization – a Virtual Exhibit, 2022
“Small Expressions 2022”, Handweavers Guild of America, Knoxville, TN, 2022
“Every1”, National Basketry Organization – a Virtual Exhibit, 2021
“Basketry Now”, National Basketry Organization, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY, 2019
“Members in Print: Vessels”, National Basketry Organization Quarterly Review, Issue 71, 2018
Selected Honors
First Place and Viewer’s Choice Best of Show, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2024
Included in the 2024 Small Expressions (Handweavers Guild of America)
First Place, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2022
First Place, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2021
First Place, Texas Basket Weavers Association Exhibit, 2019
First Place, Northeast Basketmakers Guild Exhibit, 2019
First Place, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2019
First Place, North Carolina Basketmakers Association Exhibit, 2018
Exceptional Merit, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2018
First Place, Texas Basket Weavers Association Exhibit, 2017
First Place, North Carolina Basketmakers Association Exhibit, 2017
First Place, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2017
First Place, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2016
First Place, North Carolina Basketmakers Association Exhibit, 2015
First Place, Texas Basket Weavers Association Exhibit, 2014
First Place and Viewer’s Choice Best of Show, Association of Michigan Basketmakers Exhibit, 2013
Selected Workshops
Shenandoah Creates, VA -2023, 2024, 2025
5th World Wicker and Weaving Festival, Poznan, Poland – 2023
Great Basin Basketmakers, NV – 2023
PennJersey Basketry Guild, PA – 2022
Cabin Fever Workshop, Owatonna, MN – 2022
Baskets and Gourds, Containers of our Culture, Visalia, CA, 2022, 2024
New England Traveling Teacher, MA, CT, NY, NH, VT – 2019
Alabama Basket Weavers Guild, Anniston, AL – 2020, 2023
Weaving in the Sunshine State, FL – 2020, 2023
Basket Art Guild, IL – 2019
Northeast Basket Guild, MA – 2019, 2021
Conference of Northern California Handweavers, 2017
Columbia Basin Basketry Guild, OR – 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024
Cross Roads Basketry Guild – Mid Winter Get Away, Okemos, MI – 2015, 2017, 2020
Minneapolis Basketmakers Guild, MN – 2015
Headwaters Basket Guild, Bemidji, MN – 2014, 2017
Wildwood Basket Guild – Winter Weave, OH – 2013, 2015, 2019
North Shore Basketmakers, Duluth, MN – 2013, 2015
Georgia Basketry Guild, GA – 2012, 2013, 2017
Woven Together in Western Kentucky Basketry Guild, KY – 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018
Texas Basket Weavers Association, TX – 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023
Stowe International Basketry Festival, VT – 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022
North Carolina
Viewer’s Choice Association of Michigan Basketmakers (2024)
Basketmakers Association, NC – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
Central Pennsylvania Basketry Guild, PA – 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022
Heritage Weavers, Dayton, OH – 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019HHH
Tidewater Basketry Guild, VA – 2010, 2013, 2020
Silver Dollar Basketry Seminar, MO – 2009
Bluegrass Area Basketmakers Seminar, KY – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
Weavin’ in Winona, MN – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018
Kentucky Basket Association, KY – 2008, 2009, 2011, 2020
NorthWest Hoosiers Fall Basket Weave, IN – 2008, 2011,
Whitewater Basket Guild: Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat, IN – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Missouri Basketweavers Guild, MO – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024
Wolf River Basketry Guild, WI – 2004, 2010, 2016, 2021
Association of Michigan Basketmakers, MI – 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
Land of Lincoln Basket Weavers Association, IL – 2003, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 20 22
East Troy Basketry, WI – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Memberships and Positions Held
National Basketry Organization, 2002-present
Board Member: 2020 – present
Board Vice-President: 2021
Board President: 2022-2023
Wisconsin Weave Basketry Guild, Wisconsin, 1994-present
President: 2016-2020
Publications and Media
“Excellence in Fibers X”, Fiber Art Now, Winter 2025
“Paper Made”, Fiber Art Now, Summer 2023
Members in Print: Vessels, National Basketry Organization Quarterly Review, Summer, 2018
Three Strand Braid Weaves, National Basketry Organization Quarterly Review, Summer, 2013
“Touch of Art: Self-taught Artists weaves her life around baskets, teaching” Shelly Birkelo article, Janesville Gazette, Janesville, WI, 2016
The Basket Teacher Blog, www.prairiewoodbasketry.com 2015-2018
Training and Development
Self-directed Research and Experimentation 1993 – present
Workshop with Lissa-Jane deSailles (Australia) Washington- 2024
Workshop with Jackie Abrams (VT) Kentucky – 2019
Workshop with Mary Hettmansperger (IN) Vermont – 2018
Workshop with Vladimir Yarish (Russia) Vermont – 2016
Workshop with Dianne Stanton, Massachusetts – 2005
Workshop with Judy Wilson (GA), East Troy, WI – 2002
Workshop with Judith Olney, Massachusetts – 2001
Workshop with John McGuire (NY), East Troy, WI – 2001
Workshop with Flo Hoppe (NY), Baraboo, WI – 2000
Workshop with Ann Coleman (KY) East Troy, WI – 1999
Workshop with Jim Rutherford (OH), East Troy, WI – 1998
