Grant Recipients

National Native Artist Exchange grant recipient Kelly Church; photo by Jeff Strand.

Kelly Church

Grant Program: 
National Native Artist Exchange
Year: 
2009
City: 
Hopkins
State: 
MI
Artist Name: 
Kelly Church
Artist City: 
Hopkins
Artist State: 
MI
Grant Amount: 
$1,498

Kelly Church (Grand Traverse Band, Ottawa and Ojibwe) expanded her knowledge of basketmaking and materials through an exchange with Passamaquoddy master weaver Molly Neptune-Parker in Bar Harbor, ME. Neptune-Parker demonstrated Passamaquoddy basketweaving techniques, and Church taught Neptune-Parker about the making of a black ash bark basket.

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