Angela Eastman

Angela Eastman is a basketweaver and metalworker based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. She has a background in sculpture and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and completed the Core Fellowship program at Penland School of Crafts in 2014. She now works primarily as a basketweaver and teacher of weaving, blacksmithing, and ceramics, in addition to designing a small jewelry line every year. For the last several years, Angela has been weaving baskets with foraged material, often invasive vines such as kudzu, wisteria, and honeysuckle. She is also cultivating five different varieties of basket willow plants on her land in the Piedmont of North Carolina.