Fran Reed makes baskets from a variety of fish skins, gut and other materials from nature. She gathers skins in their raw form and prepares them for stitching in the manner she learned from Native Americans of Alaska where she lives. Many of her baskets have inter layers of materials such as seaweed, leaves or lichen pressed between the layers of fish skin and gut and evident when light passes through the vessel. Fran’s baskets have taut delicate membrane-like surfaces. Some of her structures are so full of energy and life that they appear to be moving in water.

Selected Permanent Collections:

Contemporary Art Bank, Alaska State Council on the
Arts State of Alaska Museum, Juneau, Alaska

University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska

Pearl Creek Elementary School % for Art,
Fairbanks, Alaska

Noel Wein Library, Fairbanks, Alaska

Anchorage Museum of History and Art

State of Alaska Court System % for Art,
Juneau, Alaska

Maniilaq Health Center % for Art, Kotzebue, Alaska

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BREACH II
23" x19" x 18"
$3700