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Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Awards
MTAAP
application form (PDF)
MTAAp application
form (word)
^MTAAP Awardees List^
Renée Wasson Dillard (l) and
Kristina Deland-Phillips (r)
Photo by LuAnne Kozma
Renée Wasson Dillard
2009 master artist
Harbor Springs (Emmet County)
black ash baskets
Renée Wasson Dillard is recognized as a highly accomplished master
finger weaver, black ash basket maker, culture bearer and educator. Born
of a Scottish-American mother and Odawa father, Renée draws on her
two heritages and love for traditional fiber arts. She weaves cedar bark,
black ash baskets, and cattail and bulrush mats, has become proficient in
making birch bark boxes, and also finger weaves sashes, a tradition she
learned as a young girl from her mother. She began making baskets as a child
and currently weaves baskets full time, and teaches basket making in order
to preserve this tradition. Renée selected Kristina Deland-Phillips,
of Portland, a young Odawa woman whose family she has known her whole life,
as her apprentice to help continue this tradition with younger generations.
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