Dawn Nichols Walden
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Dawn Nichols Walden | |
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| Born | 1949 |
| Known for | Basket weaving |
Dawn Nichols Walden (b. 1949, Vulcan, Michigan)[1] is an artist known for her basketry and fiber art. She studied at Ferris State University. In 2014 her work was included in the exhibition Elementals: Women Sculpting Animism at the Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York City.[2][3] In 2016 her work was included in the exhibition Woven: The Art of Contemporary Native Basketry at Clark College. It was curated in collaboration with the I.M.N.D.N. Exhibition Series.[4][5] In 2017 her work was included in the exhibition Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art.[6] The show traveled to the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.[7] In 2018 she received a United States Artists Fellowship.[8]
Her work, Random Order XIII, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.[9][10]