Beaded Elephant by Women of the MonkeyBiz Project

Beaded Elephant

I will be out of town from July 11th to 20th. The gallery will not be open but the website will be working away as usual. Orders will be shipped after July 20th. I will be checking email mesages and should be able to repy to inquiries.

Indigo Arts has moved upstairs to a space on the fourth floor of the Crane Building. I am still arranging things up here but I am open on a "by appointment or by chance" basis. I am usually in the building from Wednesday through Saturday from 12 to 6, but it is definitely best to phone or email first. Meanwhile, the Indigo Arts online gallery is operating as usual.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions in the mean time.
Tony

SKU: CPD-52

Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(2 1/2" h. x 1 1/2" w. x 4 1/4" l.)

Women of the MonkeyBiz Project

Artist Mathapelo Ngaka in Santa Fe, July 2006.

The 180 women currently participating in the project are producing a variety of one-of-a-kind dolls and bags. In designing and creating these artworks, the women draw on and renew the rich artistic traditions of their several ethnic groups - Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho and others. In thse works the bead artists of the Cape townships are creating a new, often humorous and sometimes quite startling synthesis of folk traditions.

South Africa

$36