Aganaq Kostenborder

Aganaq is a mixed Indigenous artist, craftsperson, teacher and student of many mediums including basketry, hide tanning, sewing, natural dyes, drawing, and more. 

Her willow basketry practice began the summer of 2012 when she met her teacher Margaret Mathewson and learned to weave her first willow basket.

Born and raised in Bristol Bay Alaska, and belonging to the lands of the Alutiiq and Yupik peoples, salmon, bears, mosquitos, and the Curyung tribe she now lives on Chinook lands in western Oregon. 



Mo Hohmann

Mo is devoted to willow and tending the living tradition of basket weaving as a form of ancestral communication and as response to the ever changing needs of the living world. She is a mother, basket /coffin maker, multi-disciplinary artist, teacher, reverent farmer, and threshold worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels she weaves. 

She first learned to weave willow baskets in 2014 from her teacher Margaret Mathewson  - connecting her craft with the life of plants. There she learned about willow, their growing rhythms and patterns, the harvesting and curing of the plant for weaving, and teaching others to weave. Mo is a guest on S’Klallam land in rain shadowed Port Townsend, Washington where cormorants dive and eagles tell glacial memory sky stories with ancestral lines from the west coast of Ireland and Main River lands in Germany.


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