Costumes from Paramount Pictures and intricate bead work of a Native American artist. Costumes from Paramount Pictures are in the spotlight at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio. The incredible, ...

Beadwork is a pillar of Indigenous design. While various tribes hold different design specialties—the Navajo, for example, are best known for their weaving and textiles—much of the Native community ...

Thousands of tiny glass beads skillfully sewn onto an array of items make a statement not only of beauty, but of the history and culture of a people. “Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork” ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A dancer visiting Albuquerque for the Gathering of Nations is heartbroken. Someone broke into her car while it was parked at a hotel, and stole something very special to her. Now, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The Field Museum kicked off National Native American Heritage Month with a Friday demonstration of traditional beadwork technique. The showcase is the first in a series of Native American heritage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unless one is Native American, getting a grasp of complex Native American spiritual cosmologies is not easy. And that distinction, which might be called a quality of profound otherness, is in essence ...