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Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Awards
MTAAP
application form (PDF)
MTAAp application
form (word)
^MTAAP Awardees List^
 Kelly
Church (l) and Cherish Parrish (r)
Kelly Church
2009 master artist
Hopkins (Allegan County)
black ash baskets
Kelly Church is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa
and a fifth-generation black ash basket maker, an art form she learned from
her father, Bill Church, and her cousin, John Pigeon. Kelly demonstrates
and teaches basket weaving to a variety of audiences. With support from
the National Museum of the American Indian, Kelly coordinated a symposium
in 2006 to teach other black ash basket weavers about the Emerald Ash Borer,
an insect that is destroying thousands of black ash trees. She advocates
for the collection of ash seeds to ensure the future of black ash basket
making. Kelly also works with birch bark and birch bark biting. With this
apprenticeship she is teaching her daughter, Cherish Nebeshanze Parrish,
the art of black ash baskets.
See their website:
The Art of Kelly Church and Cherish Parrish
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