Investigate the form and function of Sustaining Traditions-Digital Teachings (2018) by Kelly Church. Engage in close looking and get new ideas for your own art making.
Kelly Church
“I create baskets to educate, to humor, to engage people in conversation, to get people to think, to learn, to share, to give a voice [to] the traditions of yesterday and combine these teachings with my role in a contemporary world today.”
—Kelly Church
Kelly Church (b. 1967) is an Indigenous artist of Ottawa/Potawatomi Anishinaabe descent from Hopkins, Michigan. She is a fifth-generation black ash basket weaver, educator, activist, and traditional knowledge keeper.
