Lakota Women's Arts: Quillwork and Beadwork

Marsha C. Bol, PhD, is director emerita of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Over the past four decades she has worked as a director or curator at the Museum of International Folk Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.

She was formerly associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Bol holds a PhD in Art History from the University of New Mexico and is a specialist in Native American art and architecture and Spanish Colonial art and architecture. Thomas Red Owl Haukaas, MD, is a physician and an enrolled member of the Rosebud Lakota tribe.

Over the last twenty-five years his artwork in media ranging from quillwork, beadwork, and doll making to ledger drawing and fabric design has earned numerous awards. His work in both traditional and contemporary forms is in the collections of major art museums and galleries.