Ethna Byrne-Costigan
Irish academic and writer
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Lila Greengrass Blackdeer
Lila Greengrass Blackdeer first learned black ash basketmaking to help supply her family’s roadside basket stand on Highway 12 near her hometown.
Laverne Brackens
A textile artist from Fairfield, Texas, Laverne Brackens represents a long tradition of improvisational quiltmaking among African-American women.
Karen Ann Hoffman
Karen Ann Hoffman has been beading peace, beauty, and meaning through her Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork since the 1990s.
Kelly Church
Native American basketmaker
Annie Klaney
Chilkat blanket weaver
Josephine Lobato
For decades, Josephine Lobato has created embroidered renditions of cultural memories, enactments, and folk histories.
Grace Henderson Nez
Grace Henderson Nez lived her entire life in a hogan at the base of Ganado Mesa on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. For more than seven decades, she raised and sheared sheep, carded and dyed the wool, and wove intricate and distinctive Navajo rugs.
Gussie Wells
Like other quilters in the region, Wells and Williams tended to emphasize design, bright colors, and vivid contrasts in their quilts. They played endlessly with the form of the square and the straightforward strip, disguising and exploding these essential design elements in myriad ways.
Hystercine Rankin
Because of the utilitarian nature of her quilting, Rankin never thought of herself as an artist. That began to change in 1981 when she was invited to be a resident artist at the junior high school in her hometown of Lorman, Mississippi.