tags:: #USA #author #basketry #industry --- ### About Ezra Shales teaches the history of design and craft at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has a PhD from the Bard Graduate Center and an M.F.A. from Hunter College. He is currently writing introductions for new editions of David Pye’s seminal books __The Nature of Design__ (1964) and __The Nature and Art of Workmanship__ (1968), working on an exhibition of work by Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal, and going in circles trying to write a book on 21st-century basketry.