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 ...

“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 ...

Five Métis artists are bringing Red River beadwork into renewed focus at Gallery 1C03, with an exhibition that highlights ...

Hundreds of beadwork enthusiasts are expected to gather at the Manitoba Museum on Sunday for a Bead-A-Thon fundraiser supporting the museum's community initiatives projects. Tashina Houle-Gaywish, ...

Glittering light reflects off translucent glass beads of varying textures and sizes that are carefully threaded onto a neutral canvas, creating a sense of movement. The almost microscopic space ...

In the 19th century, European traders and colonists brought glass beads to the United States, and Native American artists began using them in their textile embellishment work. Before beadwork, there ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

So there’s this new show out called “Reservation Dogs.” It follows four teenagers on a reservation in Oklahoma. Even though there are only a handful of episodes out right now, the show is the talk of ...