Joyce, Juanita and Jessica Growing Thunder

In this picture you see Joyce Growing Thunder wearing a traditional Assiniboine-style dress that she made. Grass Valley, California 1986

For this special occasion we have the opportunity to work together with native beadwork and quill artists Joyce, Juanita and Jessica Growing Thunder.
They are 3 generations continuing the longtime tradition within their family to make beautiful beaded dresses.

Currently they have been making new work for August’s Santa Fe Indian Market..
This time they made 3 painted dolls.

Juanita Growing Thunder-Fogarty, 40, began beading simple belts at age 10 and soon graduated to dolls, cradle boards, knife cases and medicine bags adorned with beads, tassels, and quills modeled on those her nomadic Sioux and Assiniboine ancestors packed and carried across the Plains.