Weaving a Story

In a new body of work, Dee Clements braids a fresh narrative of social history and traditional craft

- HANNAH MARTIN

My early baskets were very tight and small and finished," says Dee Clements of Studio Herron, lightly scolding her past perfectionist self. "That was my design brain." Since enrolling in the master's furniture program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, however, she's been fighting that impulse. "I want to shake up the language of basketry."