Dubin spent nearly four years creating the exhibit, as well as its companion book, “Floral Journey: Native North American Bead work” (Autry National Center/University of Washington Press, $65).

The exhibition is one of the largest collections of contemporary Native bead art ever presented in North America, featuring approximately 100 works highlighting Native techniques and designs ...

She just started beading last year, and started Free Bird Designs, an online shop to sell her pieces on Jan. 1. “Beading has been a huge part of my healing,” Rivera said.

The beadwork, resembling very floral tattoos, represent symbols and creation myths of the Lenni Lenape people, who worked with Fuentes to create the patterns by hand. Fuentes is based in Mexico City ...

The designs created in paint, quills, and Native beads carried over into beadwork made after European contact. The Dakota began to use hand-blown beads, then standardized “pony” beads, and ...

The designs, meanwhile, are ... That vocabulary and thought process doesn’t get applied to Native beadwork. Murphy Adams is hoping to “bring more of that critical function to beaded objects ...

Costumes from Paramount Pictures and intricate bead work of a Native American artist. ... AND, YOU CAN SEE THE INFLUENCE IN SOME OF EDITH'S PIECES WITH SOME OF THESE NEWER DESIGNS.

Lakota bead artist Keely Eagleshield showing off her beadwork headpiece. While based in the small town of Aurora, Eagleshield’s clients come from all over the country and the world.

FAIRBANKS — Athabascan artist Dixie Alexander will lead three Athabascan beadwork, tufting and porcupine quill workshops beginning this weekend at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center.