Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of ...

For Andrea “Annie” Cayetano-Jefferson, this tradition ties her to generations of Gullah people, including her mother and daughter.

Sweetgrass -- or "Wiingashk" in the Ojibwe language -- is used in ceremonies and signifies the hair of Mother Nature or "Ogashiinan." According to the Ojibwe culture, sweetgrass purifies the ...

Quillwork earrings, birchbark baskets and pottery classes are planned for spring and summer. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will have its annual powwow over Memorial Day weekend (1-320-532-3632 ...

Two long-time Sweetgrass basket weavers in Hilton Head say the art form is dying. They’re determined to keep it alive.

Nakia Wigfall, a Mount Pleasant sweetgrass basket artisan, finished a rice fanner basket that a basketmaker started in Sierra Leone. Wigfall will travel April 12 to the Bahamas to collaborate with ...

Sweetgrass baskets are as Charleston as pimento cheese and shrimp and grits. But if you’re trying to decorate your Lowcountry house, there may be only so many baskets you can ...

Travel: Sweetgrass baskets & fortress bricks. Diane Speare Triant. Along the shoulder of Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, dozens of roadside stands dot the landscape.

The value of authentic sweetgrass baskets is recognized far beyond the Lowcountry. In 2008, Mary Jackson was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, often called a “genius grant,” for her ...

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — The Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Pavilion, located at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park, is now open to any East of the Cooper basket maker, free of charge, on a first ...