Ornament Print Edition Volume 43.3
Features
Threads of Power. Delicate Luxury
Early Roman Mosaic Face Bead Iconography. Mysteries of the Past Part II
Museum of Beadwork. To Bead or Not to Bead: That is Not the Question
Queerphoria. Otherness & Ourselves
Writing the Divine in Ink and Cotton. Aboriginal Screen-printed Textiles From Australia’s Top End
Departments
Indigenous Heritage. The Portable Universe
Adornment in the Wild. On the Periphery. Bone Ornaments of the Idu Mishmi
Welcome to our latest edition of Ornament Magazine! In this issue, Patrick R. Benesh-Liu invites readers to explore the fascinating collaboration between the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Aboriginal art centers of Australia’s Northern Territory. Here, their daily lives and the world of spirits is writ large upon cloth.
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell regales us with the history of lace and its intimate connection to status and luxury, through the recent exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York.
Robert K. Liu continues his research on the “courtesan” face bead, introducing new findings and posing questions still to be answered.
Carl Little gives readers a preview to the upcoming Museum of Beadwork in Portland, Maine, founded by beadwork lovers Heather Kahn and Kristen Skillin.
Ashley Callahan reveals the stories told in the recent “[queerphoria]” exhibition, and takes us through a kaleidoscope of perspectives and personalities. These artists share how their identity, often paired with difficult experiences, gives them great joy.