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Kiowa artist Terri Greeves honored as a living treasure
Bead artist Terri Greeves, and her sister Keri Ataumbi were both honored as living treasures for the 2015 Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival (May 23-24, 2015), a benefit for the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe. Ataumbi is a jeweler, describing her work as wearable art. I have seen Greeves work in person; she was…
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Spoon carving at the Driftless Folk School
Last year at about this time, my sister and I took a class on sweet grass basketry at the North House Folk School. This learning vacation together, we took a class on spoon carving at the Driftless Folk School in Viroqua, Wisconsin. I took some pictures as we worked to be able to share. The…
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Snowflake for 2014
Every year, I make a snowflake for my Christmas tree. Here is this year’s edition; my design.
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Ornaments, 2014 edition
So, I’m taking three (?) shortcuts. Using my phone to take a picture. No light tent. Blogging on my phone. What’s the saying? Perfect is the enemy of good? I wouldn’t at all say that this picture is good, but perhaps good enough for a little project. Back to the beadwork! For one of my…
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Additional baskets from “Sharing Traditions” at Yosemite National Park
I limited my basket photographs in my last post to baskets made by the three main demonstrators at Yosemite in the last 80 years, Maggie Howard, Lucy Telles, and Julia Parker. There were other baskets at well, rooms of them. Enjoy! Carrie Bethel was Mono Lake Paiute, and these baskets were made in the 1930s…