Michael Marie Schofield
Michael Marie is a Michigan-based fiber and funerary artisan. She weaves conventional baskets and also crafts caskets, burial trays, urns, and plant-dyed shrouds as more sustainable end-of-life options. She crafts with wild-tended and heirloom willow in addition to many other plants, including those commonly considered invasive species. She believes reestablishing relationships with these overabundant and controversial plant species can improve the health of our ecosystem, deepen our relationship with the living world, and make a lot of crafts more easily accessible.