Loretta Burden

Basketry

Loretta Burden (Fallon Paiute), born 1945, is a basket weaver, teacher and a multimedia sculptor. Her basketry was featured in the book Basket Weavers of Tradition and Beauty by Mary Fulkerson and exhibited with a statewide travelling art show called Common Thread in the 1980’s. Burden also worked with the Clark County Heritage Museum to create one of the first Native American exhibits and a Native basketry exhibition at the McCarren International Airport. Loretta has been featured as one of six “Nevada Women Making a Difference” for the Las Vegas Centennial Celebration in 2005 and as a community leader making positive changes to the cultural fabric of Las Vegas in the documentary “Women of Diversity.”