Ethel Owen has been a basketmaker since 1980 and a member of AD/C since 1975. For ten years she made white oak baskets, Nantucket lightship baskets, reed baskets and pine needle baskets. Since 1990 she has devoted her basketry skills to baskets fashioned from gourds. She says the gourd bug bit her and hasn't let go yet. Her work can be seen at Artists Incorporated Inc. in Vestavia.