Like Meserve, Gray’s work is decidedly modern and non-traditional—especially given her Muscogee background. “My Muscogee tribe has historically had very little to do with beadwork,” she says. “This used to make me very self-conscious, as if my work was somehow generic, invalid, or even inappropriate.” Still, she wanted to blend elements of pop culture into the medium. “Now, I am actively attempting to reconfigure my own brain to look at something I’ve made and think, ‘This is Native art.’ It’s Native because I’m making it.”
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