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Wet-felted necklace using shibori techniques for texture. I experimented with binding coins into the wool, instead of pebbles, in order to get this flatter, scalier texture. The result reminded me of the scales of a fish.
I later embellished each scale with beadwork and added a hand-felted flower.
I believe that this red bead is called a Humble Stitch acknowledging that only god can make something perfect.
Cuthand is fascinated by medicine, disease and our body systems. Her past work has beautifully represented the horrifying viruses that arrived through the trade routes – the same trade routes that introduced glass beads – and decimated Indigenous populations. Here she presents a series of intricately beaded reproduction of MRI scans evoking the brains of people dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression and other illnesses. Cuthand’s series gives voice to issues of Indigenous mental health and illustrate the physical aspect of illness.
This piece honours Métis activist Maria Campbell, who greatly influenced the lives of many Indigenous women. In recreating the cover of Maria’s book, “Halfbreed”, Anderson realized that while her journey with Maria began with this book, it was their friendship filled with laughter, stories, teas, lessons, teachings and love that mattered most. As a result, the artist recognized that, by focusing on their relationship while beading, through Maria, parts of her emerged.
In her art practice, Partridge includes any available materials that are at hand – cloth, beads, discarded items – while her written and spoken words touch on what is happening in the world, including Indigenous issues. Apirsait are spiritual helpers, creatures found in Inuit Nunangat, who are called upon in times of need.
Portrait of a woman at the colourful Maasai Market showing me her beading, a practice of cultural significance to the Maasai. The Maasai market in central Arusha, Tanzania sells a variety of African curios and souvenirs, including some lovely Maasai beading done specifically by women, a tradition that has lasted hundreds of years. Only with the rise of trade in the 19th C did the use the women begin to use of glass and plastic beads for the necklaces, earrings and bracelets.
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In her art practice, Partridge includes any available materials that are at hand – cloth, beads, discarded items – while her written and spoken words touch on what is happening in the world, including Indigenous issues. Apirsait are spiritual helpers, creatures found in Inuit Nunangat, who are called upon in times of need.
Bead covered clothing from a Maloh community in West Kalimantan Borneo. Seen at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM
Drawing on Indigenous teachings, knowledge and ways of making, Judy Anderson creates work in tribute to the people in her life. She created this work to honour her brother, who was taken in the Sixties Scoop. Her entire family helped to complete the piece as they commemorated their loss. Anderson states: “this served as a reminder that grief is not carried alone, an idea that affirms nehiyaw belief in the importance and centrality of familial relationships as rooted in sharing with and supporting one another.”
I wonder if this was made by one of my ancestors? It was handed down to me by one of my great aunts, who told me she had received it from her mum. The glistening tiny glass beads completely cover a small cylindrical purse, with a drawstring top, and fringed tassel at the base. It is lined with a soft purple cotton fabric. Totally impractical as a modern purse, but I love the workmanship.
Speaking to strength of tradition and one’s ancestors, these Apsaalooké-style beaded cuffs are made from layers of Kevlar ballistic fabric, a material five-times stronger than steel. Not unlike the cuffs adorning the wrists of the Wonder Woman character (of past and present), these too are bullet proof, protective fashion accessories for facing colonialism and its perpetrators.
With a kindship of trust, both artist and photographer share different viewpoints of the bruise. With her beaded hide titled “But There’s No Scar?”, Blackburn highlights the trauma experienced by so many Indigenous women, while the photographer explores and celebrates the cosmology and beauty in the work and growth of the bruise.
What is art ? What is Indian ? Do you consider yourself a native artist or an artist or both ?
These are just some of the questions that Teri Greeves has been presented with throughout her career. Greeves created this beautifully beaded work in response to these types of questions by using a stereotypical image of a figure in a warbonnet, and inspired by 1960s Pop Art artist Roy Lichtenstein’s oil painting ART. With this work she challenges the impulse to define and limit Native Art.
Speaking to strength of tradition and one’s ancestors, these Apsaalooké-style beaded cuffs are made from layers of Kevlar ballistic fabric, a material five-times stronger than steel. Not unlike the cuffs adorning the wrists of the Wonder Woman character (of past and present), these too are bullet proof, protective fashion accessories for facing colonialism and its perpetrators.
In her art practice, Partridge includes any available materials that are at hand – cloth, beads, discarded items – while her written and spoken words touch on what is happening in the world, including Indigenous issues. Apirsait are spiritual helpers, creatures found in Inuit Nunangat, who are called upon in times of need.
By using the form of a bandolier bag, worn in Anishinaabe ceremony and often gifted to respected people, Ace pay tribute to Alain Brosseau, a young waiter at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, who was brutally attacked and murdered by homophobic thugs while returning from work in August 1989. This violent hate crime shocked and galvanized Ottawa-Gatineau’s LGBTQ+ community. Ace memorializes Brosseau, while asking viewers to look more closely into local histories, and question what stories are readily available, and why others are obscured.
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If there's anything the Plains tribes of North America are famous for it's their spectacular bead work; each tribe, sometimes each band or family, has its own traditions and iconic symbols, and at least one family member who can make these spectacular works of art. In the 21st century this traditionally women's art is also practiced by men.
At the 44th Annual Montana State University American Indian Council PowWow, Bozeman.
Dedicated to our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
She learned this beading technique from a teacher who learned it from an ancient tribe of indians in Mexico. This tribe was left relatively undisturbed by the Spaniards because they negotiated with the Spaniards; if they would leave the tribe alone, the tribe would supply the Spanish troops with food, and so they worked out a deal. Smart people. Kathleen says this necklace would be like a very simple child's necklace to these people. :)