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 brims, earrings and leather pouches.