Marilyn Moore (artist)

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Marilyn Moore is an American contemporary basketmaker who has been showing in galleries across the nation since 1994. Shows have included work with Sculpture Objects & Functional Art in New York and Chicago, the del Mano Gallery in Los Angeles, Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle and the Smithsonian in DC. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis on fiber arts at the University of Washington in 1997, and has contributed to many books on the topic of basketmaking, including "Textile Techniques" in Metal, for Jewelers Textile Artists & Sculptors by Arline Fisch and Baskets Tradition and Beyond by Leier, Peters and Wallace. She has also produced instructional CDs entitled Pine Needle Basket Making and Introduction to Coiling with Katherine Thomas. Her work consists of brilliantly colored wire baskets in organic and fanciful shapes, an art form that she has brought up from the level of simple woven pine needle baskets. Photos of her work have been published in the Seattle Times Pacific Magazine and several art and craft magazines nationwide. Kevin Wallace's article in Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot magazine "Marilyn Moore Basketmaker" outlined Moore's path as an artist as well as her art itself.