"I began as a painter and I walked into a bead store and it was just like a flash in my mind. I just thought, 'My God, that's the most amazing paint I've ever seen," says Liza Lou. She began to ...
The brightly colored mural hanging in the lobby of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, part of a traveling exhibit opening today, took museum staff much of a day to hang - the scene of a ...
This story begins with artist Stephan Wanger challenging himself to double a Guinness World Record. It ends with an art critic's challenge to Wanger. Wanger is Louisiana's premier maker of Mardi Gras ...
“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 ...
You may remember Perler beads from first or second grade; these small plastic beads are placed into a peg board and then ironed to produce a solid multicolored piece of plastic. Recently, Perler beads ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is gearing up to unveil the largest contemporary Native American bead art exhibition, Radical Stitch. The only stop in ...
A local artist is bringing memories of her childhood to life using beads. "I had all these old pieces that I have collected all my life and I did not know what to do with them," said artist Cynthia ...
MOBILE, Alabama -- Mobile artist Spring Waldron's Mardi Gras bead creations have co-starred with Bruce Willis, John Cusack and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. Waldron said a styrofoam skull she adorned with ...
Nick Cave has traveled all around the world creating and demonstrating how to use his Soundsuits. The wearable art is designed with common material to make elaborate suits that create different sounds ...
MEXICO CITY - A Volkswagen bug decorated with more than 2 million glass beads glued on by hand by Mexico's Huichol Indians is soon to embark on a world tour. "The point is to raise awareness of the ...
Bead art is a hidden talent that a 12-year-old Chiefs fan discovered at a very young age. He's hoping that talent will grow into something much bigger."To some people, it could probably be hard. To me ...