Theresa Secord

Theresa Secord (b. 1958) is an artist, basketmaker, geologist and activist from Penobscot, Maine. She is a member of the Penobscot nation, and the great-granddaughter of the well-known weaver Philomene Saulis Nelson.[1] She was the director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance in Bar Harbor, Maine.[2] Her work has been shown at the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine, at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, and at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles.[3] In 2009, she received the Community Spirit Award from the First Peoples Fund.[4] She was named a 2016 National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts,[5] and the 2017 Bernard Osher Lecture speaker at the Portland Museum of Art.[6] She received the "Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life" by the Women's World Summit Foundation in 2003[7].

She is the granddaughter of the renowned Penobscot dancer, actress and writer Molly Spotted Elk, and her great-grandmother is Philomene Saulis Nelson, considered an "acclaimed weaver."[1]

References

  1. 1 2 1951-, Everett, Deborah, (2008). Encyclopedia of Native American artists. Zorn, Elayne. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313080616. OCLC 328280157.
  2. ↑ "Theresa Secord: Weaving New Life Into a Dying Art". Native Peoples Magazine: 36–37. 2006.
  3. ↑ "Contemporary - Hudson Museum - University of Maine". Hudson Museum. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  4. ↑ "Theresa Secord". Textile Fibre Forum. 29: 26. 2010.
  5. ↑ "Theresa Secord". NEA. 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  6. ↑ "Maine Gallery Guide". cafedesartistes.mainegalleryguide.com. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  7. ↑ "Dawnland Voices Wabanaki News". 2004. Retrieved 2018-10-11.

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