Artist Workshop with Elizabeth James Perry, 4/2
Join us on April 2 with visiting artist Elizabeth James Perry, for a special workshop.
2023 NEA Heritage award recipient Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag) engages with Northeastern Woodlands Native cultural expressions, primarily in sculptural forms of wampum shell-carving and bead-making with its connection to identity and sovereignty, maritime traditions and restorative Native gardening.
She is a culture bearer, lecturer, educator and plant walk leader in addition to textile, wampum and quill work.
Her newest work is a Sea Turtle Mound garden created with the Native students at Amherst College. Following Another Crossing, the artist collaborated on a bead film looks at beadmaking of Native shell carvers and industrialized glass bead factories.
