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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wendy Altschuler is a seasoned travel and adventure writer and author. Fashioning a strategy that lifts up and empowers indigenous ...

Cheyenne Faulkner is taking life one bead at a time. After sharing her beadwork on social media, the second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student said she transitioned from ...

Interest in Indigenous artistry has created an ecosystem of beadwork drops that sell out in minutes online. By Anna V. Smith Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake ...

On cold, frigid nights, the women of Tuscarora stayed warm inside working on their beadwork projects. Beautiful creations of beadwork items often called “whimsies” were made on the reservation and ...

Two new exhibits, displaying beadwork from cultures on opposite ends of the globe, open this month at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. “Plateau Pictorial Beadwork: The Fred L. Mitchell ...

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” ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A new pair of exhibitions are now on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. One from South Africa, another from the Columbia River Plateau, both put a spotlight on the ...

The latest exhibit at Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, N.B., has something for everyone – from a handcrafted replica of an Amazon delivery bag to Batman, to brain scans. But one thing draws ...

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 ...

Portland’s new Museum of Beadwork houses millions of tiny beads, but the museum’s focus, cofounder Heather Kahn says, is on the bigger picture: how people have used the colorful little adornments ...