AN INVITATION TO learn how to make my own basket from an old lariat sounded too good to pass up. So that is why — in spite of last Monday evening’s pouring rain — I went to the Mount Olympus Chapter ...

Standing at the gates of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington, I felt like the kid at the grown-ups’ table. Speckled around the picturesque entrance overlooking the Columbia River were ...

Craig spends nine months of the year locating and harvesting traditional materials such as hazel, rushes, bigleaf maple and western red cedar from across the state. She uses them to shape baskets and ...

Joan Getzfrid has baskets full of mystery. “It looks coiled. They’re not woven — not made like traditional baskets,” the artist from Valley said. “There are some tricks I don’t want people to know.

About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Corey Alston is a rare artisan in the craft of coiled basket weaving, a ...