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About the Author Kathryn Rousso began researching maguey textiles while developing her own fiber art, some items of which are made with the same techniques. In 2001, shortly after completing an MFA in Textile Arts and Costume Design at the University of California, Davis, she received a Fulbright grant to conduct fieldwork in Guatemala. Her first exposure to Maya textiles was in the late 1980s, when, as a Peace Corps volunteer in a Kaqchikel village, she learned backstrap weaving . In addition to her interest in Guatemalan (and Northwest Coast) textiles , she has conducted research on basketry and textiles in Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia; Andean South America; and “Maori” New Zealand. Rousso has a BA from the University of Washington and a Certificate of Merit in Northwest Coast Basketry and Textiles from the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska. Her ongoing research is intertwined with weaving, exhibit curating, workshop instruction, presentations, and writings about maguey and related topics. She contributes occasional articles to Revue, an English-language magazine published monthly in Guatemala, and wrote the chapters “Morrales” and “Dress of Eastern Guatemala” for the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 2: Latin America and the Caribbean. Her article “Betel Nuts, Beads, and Beliefs in Atoni Society” appeared in Arts of Asia magazine. Rousso’s contemporary baskets combine traditional hand-constructed techniques and natural materials from southeastern Alaska and Guatemala , bringing these two worlds together. Future plans include continued net-bag and basket research in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Alaska, and the Pacific. Fromoctober2005toNovember2009RoussoresidedparttimeinMendocino , California, where she was affiliated with the Mendocino Art Center. She currently splits her time between Ketchikan, Alaska, and Guatemala. ...

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