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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teri Greeves embellishes traditional woodwork with glass beads to celebrate her Kiowa culture and ancestry. The post Year of Glass: Contemporary Native American Beadwork first appeared on Cooper ...

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 ...

At 52, Thora Yazzie is thriving in a space where few would expect it: TikTok. With nearly 60,000 followers, the Navajo artist has built an audience that tunes in not for viral dances or lip-syncs, but ...

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 ...

The drummer and singer set the tone as the women, regal and proud, begin to dance. Their feet move slowly and gracefully to the rhythm of the music, while the beaded fringe on their handcrafted ...