Achievements: Her work is found in such public collections as the Heard Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Brooklyn Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. | Name: Teri Greeves (Kiowa) Art Movement: Contemporary Art, Indigenous Traditional Art Born: 1970 in Wyoming Main Medium: Fashion, Traditional Beading Artist Quote: "Though my medium may be considered “craft” or “traditional”, my stories are from the same source as the voice running through that first Kiowa beadworker’s needles. It is the voice of my grandmothers." About the Artist: 1995 University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. Greeves has been beading since she was about 8 years old. Greeves began her career as a beadwork artist after winning Best of Show at Santa Fe Indian Market in 1999. About the Artwork: She stitches beaded imagery to two- dimensional surfaces (as “paintings”) and to everyday objects from the non-Native world. She is most known for her fully beaded tennis shoes, which feature pictorial elements on solid, hump-stitched backgrounds. “I didn’t want to just make beaded mocassins and pipe bags,” she explains. “I never felt bound by those traditional objects.” |
Sources:
https://www.terigreevesbeadwork.com
https://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/blog/project/teri-greeves/
https://indigenousarts.as.virginia.edu/teri-greeves
https://www.terigreevesbeadwork.com
https://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/blog/project/teri-greeves/
https://indigenousarts.as.virginia.edu/teri-greeves