Stitched in Sovereignty

Contemporary Beadwork from Indigenous North America

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The Stitched in Sovereignty artworks convey visual stories of the ways Native peoples maintain control of their cultures, social and governing systems, knowledge systems, and relationships with sovereign groups. 

Featured artists include:
Katherine Boyer (Métis)
Brit Ellis (Onondaga)
Molly Murphy Adams (Lakota descent)
Shelby Rowe (Chickasaw)
Kellen Trenal Lewis (Nez Perce)

Katherine Boyer (Métis)

These artists express these concepts in the materials and processes of beadwork, a medium that has a long tradition in Indigenous North America and continues to evolve today.

Brit Ellis (Onondaga)

Indigenous beadwork enacts material expressions of Native peoples’ determination to maintain their identities and agency.

Molly Murphy Adams (Lakota descent)

While Indigenous communities have practiced forms of beadwork for millennia, the importation of European glass beads and steel needles transformed beading into a transcontinental tradition. 

Shelby Rowe (Chickasaw)

Tribes integrated trade goods into preexisting aesthetic and material traditions, many of which persist after five centuries. 

Kellen Trenal Lewis (Nez Perce)

The artworks in this exhibition reveal how Native peoples use glass beads, an imported material, to reaffirm their own beliefs, relationships, and priorities.

For more information about the artworks, please contact the artists directly.

Katherine Boyer (Métis)
Brit Ellis (Onondaga)
Molly Murphy Adams (Lakota descent)
Shelby Rowe (Chickasaw)
Kellen Trenal Lewis (Nez Perce)

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