Help Amerind Purchase a Great New Artwork!

"Basket Quilt, Touched by Many" by Tohono O’odham artist Terrol Dew Johnson

For those of you who enjoyed Terrol Dew Johnson’s exhibit of baskets and photographs, we have an opportunity to acquire some of his art. As he was taking down his exhibit in January, Terrol offered us the chance to purchase his "Basket Quilt, Touched By Many." There are only five of Terrol’s Basket Quilts in existence. One is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

Terrol’s Basket Quilts celebrate the weaving arts of many different Native people. The raw materials in the quilt include brown ash from Maine; cedar bark from Washington state; yucca, bear grass, cattail, devil’s claw, and willow from Arizona; and even materials from New Zealand. The work features methods and materials from many different tribes, tribes whose baskets are part of the Amerind’s historic collection.

Will you join me in helping the Amerind buy Terrol Dew Johnson’s Basket Quilt? Contributions toward the purchase of this work can be made with a check payable to the Amerind Foundation. Please put on the memo line "Johnson Artwork Purchase." We are seeking to raise $7500.