If ever a region had a built-in set of trademarks, it’s the Adirondacks. From the iconic Adirondack chair to the utilitarian guide boats to the rustic birch-bark and twig furniture, New York’s North ...

GOLD HILL — Today, class, we have a lesson in making baskets. We will not be making just any old basket, but fine ash wood baskets using traditional methods of preparing the wooden “splints.” Many ...

Basket makers are saving every scrap of black ash they have, now that the tree is in steep decline due to the emerald ash borer. Earlier this summer, Richard Nolan of Kahnawà:ke was forced to shutter ...

Today, only about 10 Ho-Chunk artists still make the baskets, and the black ash trees they are made from are becoming extinct. An exhibition of Ho-Chunk baskets is running at the Paine Art Center and ...

Gabriel Frey sits in his workshop, his towering frame hunched under a lamp, the only light illuminating the room. He shifts on his stool and grimaces slightly as he weaves one piece of black ash over ...

We meet a few Indigenous artists and basket makers at the Hudson Museum. We meet a few Indigenous artists and basket makers demonstrating how they split and weave brown ash and sweetgrass to create ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Gabriel Frey, a ...