I remember reading in the last year or so that the Charlie Russell Museum purchased Jackie Larson Bread’s beaded war shirt. It’s a masterful piece of beadwork. It won best of division at the Cherokee Art Market in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and shortly thereafter was purchased by the C.M. Russell Museum. I actually have been to…

The McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture, on campus at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, recently opened TWO new glass exhibits. Glass of the Ancient Mediterranean explores ancient glass with thirty pieces from the Yale University Art Gallery. It features objects from ancient Egypt and the Roman and Byzantine Empires, where glassmaking underwent…

“Ubule Women” (“beautiful” women in Xhosa) is an exhibition currently on display at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. The Ubuhle artists’ community was established in 1999 by local resident Bev Gibson and beader Ntombephi Ntombela to provide Xhosa and Zulu women with the means to provide for their families through their art.…

Usually, I send these out as I learn about them, but I’ve had a few accumulate as I haven’t been writing much lately. Once in a long while, someone learns about these exhibits from my writing, so I don’t want anyone to miss out on beadwork! Closing on January 5th is Life on a String:…

Le Méridien Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis is the country’s first luxury art hotel. From their website, it “features over 200 pieces of original contemporary art work from the private collection of the hotel’s owner Ralph Burnet. Discover many of these great pieces at the Minneapolis Burnet Art Gallery. Edgy and controversial pieces from the Young British…