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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No Boundaries: Contemporary Basketry Basketry is widely accepted as the oldest known form of craft. Since ancient times, people have constructed baskets to fill specific needs: to collect, carry, display, or store. For the past quarter century, artists have been taking the simple basket form and pushing it in new and exciting directions. The artists in No Boundaries: Contemporary Basketry, opening [opening date] at [your institution] have invented new methods of construction, often using highly unconventional materials, and have transformed the everyday into the exotic.
Even in contemporary western society, nothing has yet replaced the wastebasket, the picnic basket, and the shopping basket: low-tech but essential articles. The 12 artists in No Boundaries—most from the United States and one from Japan—have turned the familiar form of the basket into objects infused with content and meaning, creating both utilitarian and nonutilitarian vessels, even abstract sculptures.
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No Boundaries is curated by Beth Ann Gerstein, Executive Director of The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, Massachusetts. The exhibition is organized by The Society of Arts and Crafts, the oldest nonprofit crafts organization in the country and a leader in the American crafts movement.
The purpose of ExhibitsUSA is to create access to an array of arts and humanities exhibitions, nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms and cultures, and encourage the expanding depth and breadth of cultural life in local communities. ExhibitsUSA is a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1972. *Please see www.exhibitsusa.org for the most current crediting information.
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