"LAND BACK: Thanksgiving Haudenosaunee Land Protectors". Image Courtesy of Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.
Center for Indigenous Studies and American and Indigenous Studies Program Present
Beading Workshop with Sayo’:kla Kindness Williams
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor
11:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us for a workshop to create beaded "Water Is Life" pins led by Rethinking Place 2025 Artist Fellow Sayo’:kla Kindness Williams.11:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Registration required: register here.
Sayo’:kla (It Snows Again) Kindness-Williams, Turtle Clan of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is a beadwork artist. She was born in Chicago, IL and began beading at the age of 8 years old. She became interested in art at a young age. She learned to bead from a family friend and also took moccasin making class at the Oneida Summer School. Sayo’Kla attended Santa Fe Indian High School and received her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1997 and an M.B.A. from Kaplan University in 2008. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts-Studio Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM and recently returned from Indigenous Art School Residency in Venice, Italy.
Sayo’:kla began participating in art shows in 1998, winning 1 st place in Beadwork at the IAIA High School Art Competition. She has participated in regional art shows including: the Woodland Indian Art Show, Green Bay, WI (Best of Show-2022 & 2023 and only artist to sweep a category), the Hodinohso:ni Art Show at Ganondagan (1 st place Beadwork 2020), Haudenosaunee Art Show-Spring.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
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Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor
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