EXCITING NEWS:
Beadwork Storytellers – a Visual Language, an exhibition of historic and contemporary beadwork is now open at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Okla. Mrs. Berry, guest curator, will help celebrate the opening of this extraordinary display on Nov. 1. Follow these links to a Cherokee Heritage Center press release and a news story by Will Chavez of the Cherokee Phoenix. The exhibit is on display through April 19, 2009
Martha Berry: Beadwork Artist
Beaded art inspired by traditional Southeastern Woodlands Native American Indian beadwork. Mrs. Berry creates bandolier bags, moccasins, belts, sashes, small purses and men's garters, in the styles worn by the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole, prior to 1850. Click here for a brief history of Cherokee beadwork.
TO PURCHASE BEADWORK, please contact Mrs. Berry by e-mail.
To order patterns and how-to instructions for making Southeastern Woodlands beadwork, click here and order online. We offer patterns for traditional bandolier bags, ceremonial sashes, belts, three styles of moccasins and small purses.
Also available are high-quality notecards and refrigerator magnets featuring Mrs. Berry's work. To order online, click here.
Display mounts for bandolier bags are also available.
MasterCard and Visa are accepted. Please e-mail Mrs. Berry if you wish to purchase beadwork using your MasterCard or Visa credit card. Thanks.
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"Those who are at the forefront of teaching our culture are our artists and crafts people. People like Martha Berry, Lena Blackbird, Anna Mitchell, Knokovtee Scott, Bill Glass, Talmadge Davis, Mary Adair, and many others memorialize and teach our culture and traditional arts. But as each of them know and would tell you, their Cherokee projects must be historically accurate and culturally true; otherwise, they have compromised the value of their work."
~Excerpt from "Let Us Build One Fire" - 2002 State of the Nation Report
by Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chadwick "Corntassel" Smith
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