Mikailah Thompson is an Indigenous beadwork artist based in Washington, D.C. When she was 10 years old, Thompson moved to the Nimiipuu reservation in North-Central Idaho where she lived with her ...
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Interest in Indigenous artistry has created an ecosystem of beadwork drops that sell out in minutes online. By Anna V. Smith Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake ...
Students gathered Tuesday afternoon for a beading workshop for the final event of MSU’s Native American Heritage Month. The event was hosted by American Indian and Indigenous Studies professors Ellie ...
Unless one is Native American, getting a grasp of complex Native American spiritual cosmologies is not easy. And that distinction, which might be called a quality of profound otherness, is in essence ...
“Amazon Bag” by Nico Williams is one of the pieces included in “Radical Stitch,” now showing through Aug. 3 at the Eiteljorg Museum. The exhibition is one of the largest collections of contemporary ...
The Xhosa and Zulu word for “beauty” is Ubuhle. It is also the right word to describe a new form of bead art, developed by a community of women living in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. “Ubuhle ...
I am Maynard White Owl Lavadour, born and raised on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which includes the Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla people, near the city of Pendleton ...
Hundreds of beadwork enthusiasts are expected to gather at the Manitoba Museum on Sunday for a Bead-A-Thon fundraiser ...
Thousands of tiny glass beads skillfully sewn onto an array of items make a statement not only of beauty, but of the history and culture of a people. “Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork” ...
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