INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An exhibition of contemporary bead art with 100 works from Native American and Indigenous artists will open in April in downtown Indianapolis. Radical Stitch is being touted as ...
On March 7, Joy Tonepahhote will be giving a lecture on her beadworks—how she comes up with the designs and how the techniques, stories, and cultural values are passed down between generations of ...
During the Native American Artist-in-Residence Program at the Minnesota Historical Society, artists are financially supported ...
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 ...
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 ...
A life-size sculpture of a Parasaurolophus decorated with Lenni Lenape beadwork is the first permanent sculpture introduced by the Navy Yard’s developer. Artist Marianela Fuentes stands in the ribcage ...
AURORA, S.D. (KELO) – When Keely Eagleshield started her beadwork business six years ago, she had no idea she’d amass a following of thousands on the internet or that her Indigenous artwork would be ...
Growing up in the Oglala Lakota Nation, Jaida Grey Eagle didn’t see many contemporary fine-art portraits of Native people. So now, the St. Paul-based photographer and bead artist is creating them ...
Eliza Skenandore might have grown up on the Oneida reservation, but she says it was years before she came to truly appreciate the culture of the Oneidas. “I went through the Oneida school system all ...
Komina Guevara learned the art of beadwork by watching her grandfather. Now she makes traditional and modern pieces that honor 'my family, my culture and myself.' Komina Guevara’s hands are rarely ...
Rhonda Besaw sits at her table fabric in front of her, tiny bead in one hand, needle in the other. With the first prick of the needle, she starts the conversation with her ancestors. “I take up the ...