Mike Dart is a Native American basket weaver and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, who lives in Oklahoma.

[1] Growing up, he watched his grandmother Pauline Dart weave baskets and build woven furniture from willow, hickory and other materials native to the land around her home.

[1] Dart is a Cherokee artist, specializing in the art of double-wall basketry, a difficult technique involving the continuous weave of both an interior and exterior wall within each basket.

[1] Using commercial materials permits him to experiment more freely, and there are certain colors he likes to use that cannot be obtained from local natural dyes.

A Cherokee basket is classified as contemporary if it is woven in a traditional way using commercially manufactured materials and dyes.