Jennifer Pictou, Mi’kmaq Jennifer Pictou is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation with has an extensive background in museum leadership and tribal historic preservation. She is an award-winning artist in a variety of media including beadwork and stained glass and an extraordinary traditional storyteller. Her storytelling work has been seen and heard by international audiences […]
Read more
David Lone Bear Sanipass, Mi’kmaq David Lone Bear Sanipass is a Mi’kmaq Artist and Storyteller. He comes from a family that is renowned for their basketry–a tradition that he grew up with in Aroostook County. For over 50 years, David has made traditional Mi’kmaq Northern Block flutes. David learned to carve by watching his grandfather […]
Read more
Randi creates oil and acrylic paintings and digital drawings featuring traditional Wabanaki imagery in her studio in coastal Washington County. She is a graduate of the University of Maine at Machias with a degree in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts. Her work includes portraits, flora and fauna from this region and explores the connection to land as well […]
Read more
Eric Otter Bacon was born in 1977 and grew up in Indian Township and surrounding towns in Washington County. As a youngster, he was drawn to basketmaking, watching elders in his neighborhood making baskets. He was influenced by many artists, some basketmakers and birchbark artist and his style evolved as his work was also influenced […]
Read more
Dolly Barnes learned to make baskets from her mother, Molly Neptune Parker (1939-2020). Molly was an acclaimed Wabanaki basket maker who received a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow and a First People’s Fund’s Community Spirit Award. As a child, Dolly created her first baskets using scraps. Over time, her mother taught her fancy […]
Read more
Sarah Sockbeson is an award-winning Native American artist who creates traditional, yet contemporary, brown ash and sweetgrass baskets. Sarah is part of a new generation of basketmakers who is pushing the boundaries of Wabanaki cultural art to an exciting new level. With her visionary approach, she seeks to not only protect and preserve a precious […]
Read more
Gabriel Frey is a 12th generation Passamaquoddy basketmaker who grew up watching his grandfather Fred Moore make traditional work basket–packs, laundry and fish scale baskets. In addition to learning how to weave baskets, he was also taught the entire process of preparing brown ash to make the baskets: from selecting and harvesting brown ash trees […]
Read more