Standing the Test of Time: Kentucky's White Oak Basket Tradition

This is a fabulous basket exhibit at the Kentucky Museum on the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. The exhibit is open through January 31, 2017. It will amaze you. Here are a few images. 

Curators Beth Hester and Brent Bjorkman

basket by Lestel Childress

basket by Leona Waddell

the amazing Beth Hester's skeined willow basket

basket by Scott Gilbert

basket stand

Leona Waddell, 2016 NEA National Heritage Fellow

Ollie and Lestel Childress, 1982

Scott Gilbert's "Nautilus" basket

Jackie (me) with Beth Hester and Philis Alvic