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Norther Clay Center
Costal Sweetgrass: Clay & Land & Craft
SEPTEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 5
Main Gallery
Public reception: Thursday, October 12, 6 – 8 pm
CNN
The tradition traces back to the 1700s.
These women are fighting to keep it alive through online retail.
Lowcountry Parent
Lowcountry Parent
Growing up Gullah: Honoring local Gullah Geechee culture and tradition this holiday season
Today
For Andrea "Annie" Cayetano-Jefferson, a sixth-generation Gullah-Geechee basket artisan, the practice of intricately sewing together sweetgrass, bulrush, pine needles and palmetto into unique designs is an inherited “way of independence.”
“I’m doing it the same way people have been for literally hundreds of years," Cayetano-Jefferson tells Shop TODAY in an interview. “The same way my ancestors have been doing it.”
Index-Journal
Index-Journal
Woven into the culture: Sweetgrass basketry workshop highlights Gullah Geechee tradition.
Eighth-generation sweetgrass basket artist Vera Manigault shows Dawn Rhodes how a handle can be attached to the basket Rhodes started Sunday in a workshop at the Arts Center of Greenwood.
The Daily Campus
With strands of sweetgrass and a bent tip weaving tool, Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson spends several hours weaving intricate sweetgrass baskets from the Gullah culture. From Feb. 21-22, the UConn Black Student Association hosted Cayetano-Jefferson and her daughter Chelsea Cayetano to teach students about Gullah culture and the art of sweetgrass basket weaving.
Etsy News
Etsy News
John Legend Launches Exclusive Home and Living Collection, Co-Designed with Female, Black and Underrepresented Makers on Etsy.