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46 Years in Images

Jackie was a basket maker, fiber artist, and teacher since 1975, when she first apprenticed to 81-year-old Benjamin Higgins in Chesterfield, MA. It was Jackie's great joy to to experiment and explore techniques, forms, materials, and colors, to travel and teach throughout the world, and to meet other makers.
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1975 - as an apprentice to Ben Higgins
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1977 - ACC Rhinebeck Craft Show
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2005 - collecting sand in the Kalahari with Dani Abrams, Peace Corps Volunteer, Namibia
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2005 - photo by Dani Abrams
Craft Development Work
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2008 - 2009 - KamiAmi Women, Pokuase, Ghana
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2008 - Bolgatanga, Ghana
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2008 - Uganda
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2019 - at the dump in Guatemala City
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2019 - Guatemala
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2020 - LaCarpio, San Jose, Costa Rica
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2011 - Best of Show Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
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2012 - assistants at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
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2019 - "Shelter," in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Scotland
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2020 - photo by Jeff Lewis
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1976 - pounding a black ash tree
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1979 - ACC Baltimore Craft Show
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1986 - Sunapee Craft Fair, League of NH Craftsmen
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1985 - in Topsham, Vermont
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2001 - 2015 - Teaching in Australia
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2007 - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
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2010 - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
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2013 - Snow Farm School of Crafts
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2015 - Halifax, Nova Scotia
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2015 - Fibre Works Studio and Gallery, British Columbia
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2017 - Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
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2018 - The Basket Makers Catalog, Kentucky
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2019 - teaching in the UK
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2011 - green: the color and the cause, at The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
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2013 - with Nicholas Bell, curator, "A Measure of the Earth," at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum
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2014 - Smithsonian Craft Show, my last show, after 39 years
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2013 - in my studio, photo by Jeff Lewis
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2013 - photo by Jeff Lewis
Retrospective exhibit, "Jackie Abrams: 45 Years of Making"
Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts, Brattleboro, Vermont
May 29 - July 4, 2021
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    • Twinings
    • Collaborations
    • Women Forms
    • Elemental Vessels
    • Spirit Women
    • Other Works
  • Teaching
  • International
    • Central America
    • Australia & New Zealand
    • Africa >
      • Pokuase, Ghana • Jan 09
      • Ghana & Uganda • 08
      • Pokuase, Ghana • Aug 08
      • Pokuase, Ghana • Jan 08
      • Bolgatanga & Nungua, Ghana • 07
      • Ghana • 06
      • Namibia • 05
      • Nungua, Ghana • 05
  • Archived Blog