Indigenous beadwork flourishes on Instagram
Indigenous beadwork flourishes on Instagram A pair of earrings, beaded onto smoked hide, by the Cherokee artist Tayler Gutierrez. Photo: Tayler Gutierrez. by Anna V. Smith (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake City closed temporarily because of the coronavirus, she turned to her beadwork. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Gutierrez, 24, had been practicing beadwork for years after learning from a mentor, Diné poet Tacey Atsitty, and she already had a modest following on her Instagram page, where she posted her custom hat br...
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