She hand-beaded a pair of boots in honor of her unlikely childhood pet: a wild bird with a penchant for piano music, cash, and cigarettes. Okuma was around seven-years-old and playing outside her ...

There's flowers, birds, certain ways of doing leaves ... that you might get from family members When you look at someone's beadwork, like from the Koyukuk River or Yukon or further north or ...

Angela Łot'oydaatlno Gonzalez is a Koyukon Athabascan woman who learned traditional beading as a child. But with the hustle and bustle of adulthood, she lost touch with some of her Alaska Native ...

Lots of people love the birds in their garden ... Eight-year-old Gabi Mann sets a bead storage container on the dining room table, and clicks the lid open. This is her most precious collection.

"My best beadwork happens at that cabin," Holler says ... Last year, she crafted colorful abstract shapes, fish and bird pieces based on Stenson's art, which of course sold out almost instantly.

animals and birds. He was taught “deep-rooted lessons which also included the Yakama legends.” These early influences come together and continue to inspire Miller as a beadwork artist.

As part of the defence of her 500-page thesis at the University of Ottawa, Lussier strung together a Métis honour shawl with images of berries, a bird and ... and learned to bead as an adult.