Vivian Garner Cottrell

Vivian Garner Cottrell is of Cherokee and Irish decent and is a fourth-generation basket maker. In her over 50-year career of weaving, she creates traditional and contemporary baskets from rivercane, white oak and black ash splints, honeysuckle and buckbrush runners. Cherokee patterns are woven into each basket with natural dyed material using black walnut, bloodroot, berries and bois d'arc shavings. Cottrell has a B.S. in accounting. Her work is in numerous private collections.