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 ...

Centuries before Europeans arrived with glass trading beads, Native people who lived in what is now Minnesota were making beads from stone, shells, teeth and bone. Dakota and Ojibwe women used these ...

Postmodern Boa by David Gaussoin and Wayne Nez Gaussoin (Diné [Navajo]) and Picuris Pueblo, 2009, stainless steel, sterling silver, enamel paint and feathers Peabody Essex Museum, photography by David ...

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 ...

"Explore the groundbreaking exhibition Radical Stitch, where beadwork transcends tradition to reveal powerful stories of cultural resilience, political expression, and artistic innovation," invites ...

Charlene Holy Bear, a Native American artist and member of the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Tribe, first dabbled with beading footwear a couple of years ago when she traveling with her then ...