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Carol Hart, author of Natural Basketry, published by Watson-Guptill, N.Y. (ISBN 0-8230-3154-3), has exhibited and taught widely offering 52 different workshops in basketry. Carol also teaches a children's program on Woodland Indian Lifeways for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students in public and private schools in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. Carol has taught basketry at The Brookfield Craft Center, The Wesleyan Potters, the Washington Art Association, the Niddy Noddy, and for Craftsmen's Guilds in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New York. Carol received a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and went on to study design and commercial art at the Academy of Advertising Art in San Francisco. Carol became interested in basketry in 1971, making an independent study of English Basketry in England, continuing her education in basketry by studing New England basketry at the Peabody Museum in Harvard and the Hancock Shaker Museum. She subsequently studied Pennsylvania Dutch basketry at the Mercer Museum, Eastern and American Indian basketry by traveling throughout the Eastern U.S, and Caribe Indian basketry in Dominica, West Indies. Carol was the curator of the exhibit: "Eastern American Indian Basketry: A Continuing Tradtion" for the University of Hartford Art School. She has received a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Arts. "I teach tradtional basketry techniques and styles, as well as original design forms using taditonal and creative exression. My original inspirationn in 1971 was Northeastern Algonquian and Iroquoian splint basketry. Since then I have been inspired by countless Native and Euro-American baskets from all over the Americas, and by European, African, Polynesian and Asian styles as well. Basketry has become a path into the history, culture, and values of many lands and many peoples, and has been a vital experience in the appreciation of botanical gifts of nature as well as for the ingenuity of humankind." --- Carol Hart Carol offers: 52 workshops * Slide Lectures * Repairs * Replications * Commissions * Sculptural Pieces * Original Designs | |||||
