Superhouse Presents: A Conversation with Lewis Prosser and Sarita Westrup Led By Janet Koplos
Superhouse is pleased to present a conversation led by co-author of Contemporary Basketry: New Directions from Contemporary Artists Worldwide and critic Janet Koplos for Shared Ground, a two-artist exhibition bringing together the sculptural basketry of Sarita Westrup and Lewis Prosser—two artists who transform inherited craft traditions into living acts of storytelling, ritual, and repair.
Program
1:30 PM doors
2 - 3:00 PM talk
The exhibition is open 12 - 6 PM at Superhouse, Floor 6R
About Lewis Prosser
Lewis Prosser is an absurdist basketmaker based in Wales, UK. Working through heritage craft techniques and live performance, he explores the intersections of regional identity, ritual, and material culture. His practice reimagines basketry as a vehicle for storytelling and cultural exchange—linking people, place, and ceremony through speculative and often irrational forms.
Blending meticulous craftsmanship with improvisation and humor, Prosser treats making as both a social and performative act, creating shared spaces where craft becomes alive, shifting, and co-created. He has exhibited across the UK, including Mostyn Gallery, Mission Gallery, V&A Dundee, and Bluecoat, and has presented major public projects such as Making Merrie and Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream for the National Gallery’s Bicentenary. Prosser studied at the Glasgow School of Art and currently serves as Curator of The Turner House Gallery in Penarth.
About Sarita Westrup
Sarita Westrup is an artist and contemporary basketmaker whose sculptural works draw on the material languages of fiber, movement, and containment to explore ideas of border, belonging, and transformation. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Westrup reinterprets traditional weaving and dyeing techniques through a lens of bi-cultural identity, translating the visual rhythms of her home into forms that feel both architectural and intimate.
Working across basketry, sculpture, and installation, her practice bridges inherited craft traditions with experimental processes—binding together natural and synthetic materials to evoke the permeability between land, body, and culture. Westrup has exhibited nationally at institutions including El Museo del Barrio, the Penland Gallery, and the Chautauqua Institution. She has presented solo exhibitions at Erin Cluley Gallery, Cluley Projects, and Arts Fort Worth. Her honors include grants from the Center for Craft, Nasher Sculpture Center, Nest, and the American Craft Council, and she recently completed a one-year Artist-in-Residence at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.
About Janet Koplos
Janet Koplos is the co-author of Contemporary Basketry: New Directions from Contemporary Artists Worldwide (2025) and Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (2010), two landmark publications in the field of contemporary craft. She is also the author of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture (1990) and What Makes a Potter: Traditional Pottery in America Today (2019). Over the past four decades, Koplos has written extensively on craft and contemporary art, contributing essays to numerous books and exhibition catalogues and publishing thousands of reviews in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. A former senior editor at Art in America for 18 years, she has taught at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, the University of the Arts, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Koplos has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts critic’s grant and a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant (2015). She lives and works in New York City.