I have been a basket maker, fiber artist, and teacher since 1975, when I apprenticed to 81-year-old Benjamin Higgins in Chesterfield, MA. It has been my great joy to to experiment and explore techniques, forms, materials, and colors, to travel and teach throughout the world, and to meet other makers.

1975 - as an apprentice to Ben Higgins

1977 - ACC Rhinebeck Craft Show

2005 - collecting sand in the Kalahari with Dani Abrams, Peace Corps Volunteer, Namibia

2005 - photo by Dani Abrams

Craft Development Work

2008 - 2009 - KamiAmi Women, Pokuase, Ghana

2008 - Bolgatanga, Ghana

2008 - Uganda

2019 - at the dump in Guatemala City

2019 - Guatemala

2020 - LaCarpio, San Jose, Costa Rica

2011 - Best of Show Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show

2012 - assistants at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show

2019 - "Shelter," in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Scotland

2020 - photo by Jeff Lewis

1976 - pounding a black ash tree

1979 - ACC Baltimore Craft Show

1986 - Sunapee Craft Fair, League of NH Craftsmen

1985 - in Topsham, Vermont

2001 - 2015 - Teaching in Australia

2007 - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

2010 - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

2013 - Snow Farm School of Crafts

2015 - Halifax, Nova Scotia

2015 - Fibre Works Studio and Gallery, British Columbia

2017 - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

2018 - The Basket Makers Catalog, Kentucky

2019 - teaching in the UK

2011 - green: the color and the cause, at The Textile Museum, Washington, DC

2013 - with Nicholas Bell, curator, "A Measure of the Earth," at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum

2014 - Smithsonian Craft Show, my last show, after 39 years

2013 - in my studio, photo by Jeff Lewis

2013 - photo by Jeff Lewis

My retrospective exhibit, "Jackie Abrams: 45 Years of Making"
at Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts, Brattleboro, Vermont
May 29 - July 4, 2021