Popular Bead Artists

Beaded Sound Waves: Installation by Christine Sun Kim

Christine Sun Kim, a trailblazing sound artist and visual thinker, has long been known for her conceptual investigations into the social, physical, and linguistic dimensions of sound. As a Deaf artist working at the intersection of performance, drawing, and installation, Kim has challenged and expanded how sound is experienced and understood—especially for audiences attuned to …

Polish Folk Bead Trees by Karolina Krakowiak

Karolina Krakowiak is a Polish bead artist whose exquisite folk bead trees serve as a vibrant continuation and reinvention of Eastern European decorative traditions. Drawing from centuries-old Polish customs surrounding seasonal celebration, sacred symbolism, and rural ornamentation, Krakowiak’s work transforms simple glass beads into complex arboreal forms that pulse with color, history, and cultural identity. …

The Monumental Bead Curtains of Felix Blow

Felix Blow is a visionary artist whose monumental bead curtains have redefined the boundaries of contemporary installation art, transforming a traditional decorative medium into a vehicle for immersive spatial experience and conceptual inquiry. Known for his staggering scale, chromatic precision, and architectural awareness, Blow’s bead curtains are not simply ornamental screens or nostalgic throwbacks to …

The Mechanical Beadworks of Carson Fox

Carson Fox is an American artist whose beaded sculptures push the boundaries of what beadwork can express by merging organic intricacy with mechanical formality. Her body of work exists in a space where nature collides with technology, and where ornamentation is deployed as both celebration and critique. Though she is perhaps best known for her …

The Ethereal Insect Wings of Bead Artist Liz Cooksey

Liz Cooksey is a British bead artist whose delicate, lace-like creations capture the fragile beauty of the natural world through a masterful combination of wirework and bead embroidery. Most celebrated for her intricate representations of insect wings—particularly those of dragonflies, butterflies, and bees—Cooksey’s work evokes a sense of suspended animation, as if she has caught …

The Beaded Cartography of Emma Gregory

Emma Gregory is a contemporary bead artist whose intricate, map-inspired works reimagine cartography through the language of needle and thread. Known for her meticulous use of seed beads to render geographical and abstracted terrains, Gregory’s art operates at the intersection of textile practice, spatial theory, and memory. Her beaded cartography is not a literal replication …

The Story‑Blankets of Plains Cree Beader Margaret Noodin

Margaret Noodin is a Plains Cree artist whose beadwork transcends the category of embellishment and enters the realm of narrative textile art, most notably through her expansive and emotionally resonant story-blankets. These blankets, beaded with exquisite detail and imbued with cultural memory, serve as living texts in the tradition of oral storytelling, preserving and communicating …

Brazilian Seed Bead Virtuoso Cecília de Moura

Cecília de Moura is a Brazilian bead artist whose work with seed beads has redefined the possibilities of small-scale ornamentation, transforming what are often seen as modest materials into richly textured landscapes of cultural memory, ecological consciousness, and visual poetry. Born in Recife and based in São Paulo, de Moura’s artistic practice is deeply rooted …

Norwegian Sámi Bead Embellishment by Ellen‑Sophia Urheim

Ellen‑Sophia Urheim is a leading figure in the preservation and evolution of Norwegian Sámi bead embellishment, a highly refined tradition that fuses ornamental beauty with cultural identity and historical depth. Hailing from the Tysfjord region in Northern Norway, and a member of the Lule Sámi community, Urheim has devoted her life to the art of …

The Cosmic Symmetry of Bead Artist Jon Dell

Jon Dell is a contemporary Lakota bead artist whose work radiates with a meticulously orchestrated sense of symmetry, pattern, and cosmic consciousness. Born and raised in Nebraska and affiliated with the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and Lakota heritage, Dell has emerged as one of the most innovative voices in Indigenous beadwork today, bringing a modernist …