Dawn Bassett

Master Plasterer

Medford, Oregon

Dawn Bassett is something of an outlier in the world of fine art. She didn’t have any artists in her family; she grew up far from any town, in the mountains where a career in the arts was as close as a walk on the moon. She didn’t go to art school; and she didn’t chart an immediate path into a career in fine art. But since childhood, Dawn’s vivid mindscape and ability to create with her hands has been core to her very existence. Largely self-taught, she dedicated the better part of the last two decades to mastering the forms of architectural plaster, with pilgrimages and residencies around the world. Creating new techniques in order to express her vision, she mastered the art of the 2,000 year old medium of Moroccan Tadelakt. In this new genre, you see the transformation of a prosaic time-worn architectural finish into a new language backed by a voice dedicated to unlocking its secrets.