Beading Keychains with Kimberly Robertson — Wed 6/17

Wednesday, June 17, 5:30-7:30PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Free

Led by Mvskoke artist KimberlyRobertson, participants in this workshop will explore beadwork as a tool for wellness and community-building. Each participant will complete a beaded keychain. No prior experience with beading is necessary to participate, open to ages 14 and up.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a Professor of American Indian Studies, and a visual artist. Her scholarship and creative practices center Native feminisms, the sexual and gendered violence of settler colonialism, ceremony, storytelling, decolonization, and Indigenous futurities. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous community, university, public, and private galleries as well as included in peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies. In the spring of 2024, The Chapter House hosted Robertson’s first solo-exhibition, Diary of a Native Femme(nist). Robertson is an active member of the Los Angeles Indian community and facilitates beading circles and art-making workshops with Tribal Nations and communities, both locally and nationally.