Lillian Elliot

Lillian Elliot studied at Wayne State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Pat Hickman is recorded as having studied under Lillian Elliot. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is basketry. Employment is recorded with Ford Motor Company, University of Michigan and University of California, Berkeley. Work by Lillian Elliot is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Jewish Museum, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles and Arizona State University Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Fellow of the American Craft Council and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

• Name — Lillian Elliott • Birth Name — Lillian Wolock • Born — June 4, 1930 • Birthplace — Detroit, Michigan, U.S. • Died — 1994 • Place of death — Berkeley, California, U.S. • Education — Wayne State University, Cranbrook Academy of Art • Employer — Ford Motor Company, University of California, Berkeley • Spouse — H. Roy Elliott • Children — 2

Lillian Wolock was born in 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, to Polish Jewish immigrants Litman "Leon" Wolock from Włodzimierce and Edith Freedman Wolock from Bereźne (both now in Ukraine). She had three siblings. She attended Wayne State University (B.A. degree, 1952), and Cranbrook Academy of Art (M.F.A. degree, 1955). After she graduated school, she worked at Ford Motor Company, as a designer from 1955 to 1958. In 1960, she moved to California and became active within the California Craft movement, working initially in woven tapestry and fiber arts. Her work changed in the 1970s and expanded to include experiments with textile and printing on textiles. By 1975, she was practicing basketry with unconventional materials, such as cloth, bark, paper, twine, and zippers. She taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1966 to 1971. While teaching at UC Berkeley, Elliott met her lifelong friend and colleague, Joanne Segal Brandford. Her longtime collaborator was artist Pat Hickman, who started as her student. One of Elliott's two children was born in 1968 as Aaron Elliott, he would go on to be known as Aaron Cometbus.