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 ...

“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 ...

A life-size sculpture of a Parasaurolophus decorated with Lenni Lenape beadwork is the first permanent sculpture introduced by the Navy Yard’s developer. Artist Marianela Fuentes stands in the ribcage ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — November is Native American Heritage month, and the Eiteljorg Museum is building on its mission by sharing art, culture, and history of Native Americans. They are doing that in ...

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 ...

If you see a pair of moccasins on display in a museum, they might be labeled with the time period and a tribe. There likely won’t be any information about the artist who made it, or any interpretation ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Teri Greeves embellishes traditional woodwork with glass beads to celebrate her Kiowa culture and ancestry. The post Year of Glass: Contemporary ...

"Buffalo Hunt" by Velino Shije Herrera (Ma-Pe-Wi) (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) A storied and stunning trove that includes baskets, beadwork, ceramics and paintings predominantly by Native ...

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 ...