page_title: Lissa Hunter
section_title: Process
hierarchical_section_title: Lissa Hunter / Process
caption_attribution_description: English: 25” h x 49” w x 2” d
context_page_description: Lissa Hunter is an American artist, whose work includes basketry, drawing and mixed materials. Her professional activities include teaching, writing, and a long association with Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine as teacher, student and trustee.
  Hunter was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 13, 1945 to C. McCord Purdy, salesman and magician, and Ruth Gordon Purdy, secretary and untrained artist. She attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where she studied drawing and painting, attaining the BA degree in 1967, and the MFA degree in Textiles in 1971.
context_section_description: 1980–94  Coiled baskets with paper “skins”, embellished and free-standing.
  Framed, stitched collages made of paper, fabric and metal.  All embellished with painting, mark-making, stamping, embroidery, etc.
  1993–95 Merging of two-dimensional and three-dimensional work, resulting in wall-mounted shelves and boxes utilizing the visual concepts of both basketry and collages.
  1995–present Continual exploration of the vocabulary of materials and techniques previously developed.  Emphasis on ideas to define the images.
  2010–present Development of drawing and various drawing media.  Back to the "craft" of making, developing a new vocabulary of materials and techniques.  Incorporation of drawing into sculptural pieces.
  Cycles 1981 15" h x 30" w x 1" d
  Thatch Basket 1984 8" diameter x 15" h
  Santa Fe Basket 1988 17" diameter x 9 1/4" h
  Transition 1993 32"h x 26" w x 5" d
  Botanica 2001 19" h x 31" w x 4" d
  Tumbled 2010 29" h x 24" w x 3" d 
  Morning Rush 2011 25" h x 49" w x 2" d
caption: Morning Rush 2011 Lissa Hunter
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