Lazy pays off

Today I was surprised to hear from the head of the National Basketry Organization.  Apparently, a woman who runs a gallery in Portland OR saw the images of the Web and Flow show in Minneapolis, and selected 15 baskets to put in her gallery for the duration of the National Basketry Organization annual conference this summer.  My basket, Lazy Amphora, was one of those chosen!  (For those keeping track: 300 entered Web and Flow, 80 got in. Of those 80, 15 were chosen for the Portland show.) Web and Flow received mixed reviews, with one reviewer saying it was the basketry show of the year, another claiming that "too much art" was a bad thing in baskets. For once, I was happy not to be mentioned in the press. 

This basket thing...I guess I should keep going.  I was unsure, since the last batch I sent off to be juried were not accepted (though, the one non-basket piece was, and is, going to be in a show called Fibers Expanded opening next week at the Luke and Eloy Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA.)  Very flattering to be selected!  I only wish I could go to Portland for the conference and secure the title of a bona fide basket case.  

Other baskets: "Elk Cove" continues to show at National Fiber Directions, in Wichita. These shows are not reviewed any more, apparently we've been showing the nation's direction in fibers for too many years?  Anyway, other baskets: Cream Puff, which Husband says resembles Davy Damkoehler, and Carp, a new "sister basket" to Elk Cove, now appearing in my dining room, where the work for the Luke and Eloy show normally resides.