Traditional Arts Spotlight - Abenaki Basketmaking and Fiber Art
The 2022-2023 ‘cohort’ of the Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program includes 12 collaborations between mentor artists and apprentices who are working together to keep traditional cultural expressions vital and relevant to the communities that practice them. In this ongoing series of Field Notes we’ll introduce you to some of this year’s program participants and the traditional art forms they practice. Today meet Abenaki artists Vera Sheehan and Sherry Gould.
Did You Know? - “Jeanne Brink: Basket Maker”
The VFC Archives is full of amazing first-person accounts of everyday life in Vermont and New England–past and present. In this feature, we'll share these stories with you.
This month meet Abenaki basket maker Jeanne Brink. Jeanne is someone with the distinction of having been both an apprentice in the early years of the Vermont Traditional Art Apprenticeship Program and later a mentor artist, coming full circle to pass on the knowledge, skills and traditions that she learned.