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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Celebrating Native American Heritage Month by Revisiting Award-Winning Penobscot Basketmaker Theresa Secord
Description: We are celebrating Native American Heritage Month and the NEA National Heritage Award by revisiting Theresa Secord—a 2106 awardee and Penobscot basketmaker.   Although Secord’s great-grandmother was renowned for her baskets woven from the bark black ash tree and sweet grass, Theresa herself didn’t learn to weave until she was an adult.  In the podcast she discusses returning to the reservation after getting a master’s degree in geology and becoming interested in the traditional cultural art forms of the Wabanaki and learning basketry from an elder Penobscot basketmaker.  Becoming an accomplished and award-winning artist, Secord talks about her growing aw...