Sasha's profile
Sasha Baskin uses traditional weaving and lacemaking processes in combination with source imagery from reality television to consider how shows like “The Bachelor,” “Love is Blind,” and “America’s Sweethearts” function as a modern mythological system and the creation of new gods and goddesses. Trained in classical drawing, Baskin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. Transitioning to craft and studying weaving, natural dyes, and lacemaking processes, she received her Master of Fine Arts in Craft and Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018.
Her exhibition record includes The Baltimore Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC. Baskin was a 2018-2019 Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She was a member of the American Craft Council’s 2024 Emerging Artist Cohort. Her teaching record includes undergraduate coursework at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Stevenson University, and Virginia Commonwealth University as well as workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C Campbell Folk School, and Penland School of Craft. Baskin currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland.
