Above the Arctic Circle, where the temperature plumets below zero and darkness abounds for months, the art of Indigenous beading sustains the resilience of the Alaskan Gwich’in Athabaskan culture.

Lisa Apangalook, ivory carving artist, in her art studio in Spenard. (Alice Glenn/Alaska Public Media) A year ago, as the pandemic drove everybody inside, Delaney Thiele turned her focus to earrings.

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 ...

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 ...

Teri Greeves builds on a legacy of artistry, rarely recognized by mainstream institutions, that stretches through generations of Native women. Credit... Supported by By Julia Carmel Photographs and ...

A Sudbury woman says seeing her beaded earrings for sale alongside other Indigenous jewellery in a mainstream Winners store has boosted her confidence immensely. Dianna Ferderber, a member of Chapleau ...

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 ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Dakota people ...

Indigenous designers and jewelers gathered in Santa Fe this weekend to display new works combining traditional craftwork with contemporary twists.