Bead artistry on display in new exhibit at Bata Shoe Museum

By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com An exhibit at the Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum titled Brilliant: The Art of Beaded Footwear Around the World includes about 85 pieces and about 25 of them are Indigenous items. “A good percentage of the exhibition is showing and highlighting beadwork from within an Indigenous context,” said Justine Woods, a co-creator of the exhibit. The exhibit opens to the public on Oct. 22 at 327 Bloor St W. It will have an 18-month run and continue until April 2028. Woods, who is Métis, worked alongside two other co-curators—Elizabeth Semmelhack, the museum’s director and senior curator, and Nishi Bassi, the venue’s curator and manager of exhibitions. “I’m grateful to have played a large role in the integration and incorporation of a series of…

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