"I began as a painter and I walked into a bead store and it was just like a flash in my mind. I just thought, 'My God, that's the most amazing paint I've ever seen," says Liza Lou. She began to ...
This story begins with artist Stephan Wanger challenging himself to double a Guinness World Record. It ends with an art critic's challenge to Wanger. Wanger is Louisiana's premier maker of Mardi Gras ...
The brightly colored mural hanging in the lobby of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, part of a traveling exhibit opening today, took museum staff much of a day to hang - the scene of a ...
“Amazon Bag” by Nico Williams is one of the pieces included in “Radical Stitch,” now showing through Aug. 3 at the Eiteljorg Museum. The exhibition is one of the largest collections of contemporary ...
When she was eleven, Anisa Murshed began bead art as a simple leisure time. Little did she know that her hobby would one day turn her into a Guinness World Record holder for the "Longest Thread of ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is gearing up to unveil the largest contemporary Native American bead art exhibition, Radical Stitch. The only stop in ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An exhibition of contemporary bead art with 100 works from Native American and Indigenous artists will open in April in downtown Indianapolis. Radical Stitch is being touted as ...
I am beadmused after several eye-straining days of working with tiny bugles, rocailles, drops, size 11s and cubes that are fire-polished, silver-lined, aurora borealised or transparent in every ...
MEXICO CITY - A Volkswagen bug decorated with more than 2 million glass beads glued on by hand by Mexico's Huichol Indians is soon to embark on a world tour. "The point is to raise awareness of the ...
You may remember Perler beads from first or second grade; these small plastic beads are placed into a peg board and then ironed to produce a solid multicolored piece of plastic. Recently, Perler beads ...
Bead art is a hidden talent that a 12-year-old Chiefs fan discovered at a very young age. He's hoping that talent will grow into something much bigger."To some people, it could probably be hard. To me ...