Carol Eckert began experimenting with many textile processes at an early age. Though her university training was in painting and drawing, she found herself gradually drawn back to fiber, eventually discovering the basketry technique of coiling. Originally focused on vessel forms, she began to invent adaptations of this ancient process to produce complex pictorial compositions. The universal nature of animal symbolism and myth appeal to Carol and are often part of her artwork. However, recently ancient myths have given way to influences from 17th century paintings of dead game, 18th century cabinets of curiosity, and 19th century natural history museums—humans’ early reverence for nature replaced by an assumption of dominion over the earth. She lives in Tempe, Arizona.