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Whetung Ojibwa Centre

Field Mushroom-Beaded Tapestry

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Beaded Tapestry, 100% handmade, original.

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Marybeth Earls – Golden Dragonfly Beading by Marybeth
Marybeth Earls is a bead artist, teacher, and storyteller whose work reflects a lifelong relationship with the art of beading. With more than fifty-six years of beading experience and thirty years of representation through Whetung Ojibwa Centre and Art Gallery in Curve Lake First Nation, she has dedicated her artistic practice to preserving and sharing stories, teachings, and connections to the natural world through beadwork.
Drawing inspiration from teachings shared through her maternal family line, Marybeth creates original loom-beaded tapestries that honour the relationship between people, plants, animals, and the land. Her work explores themes of survival, resilience, identity, memory, and storytelling, blending traditional influences with her own contemporary artistic vision. Each tapestry is individually designed and handwoven using Czech seed beads on a loom, often requiring hundreds of hours of meticulous work to complete.
Over the course of her artistic journey, Marybeth has taught beadwork through the Curve Lake Community Centre, the Native Brotherhood Program at Warkworth Institution, and educational programs within the Peterborough area. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, cultural centres, and community exhibitions throughout Ontario and beyond. In 2007, her work was featured in Bead & Button Magazine.
Her current body of work, The Gathers: Teachings of Survival, is an ongoing series that explores pre-colonial food plants and the knowledge systems that sustained communities for generations. Through images of women gathering foods such as strawberries, blueberries, wild rice, fiddleheads, maple sap, sunflowers, bullrush, mushroom, acorn, corn, and squash, the series reflects the wisdom, resourcefulness, and enduring relationship between people and the natural world. Additional works draw upon traditional stories, the Seven Grandfather Teachings, the Clan Mothers, and personal reflections on community, connection, and belonging.
Marybeth's work can be found in private collections across Canada, Australia and the United States. Through Golden Dragonfly Beading by Marybeth, she continues to create original beadwork that celebrates story, memory, and the living traditions of bead artistry while sharing those teachings with future generations.
Every tapestry bears her signature of three silver beads woven into the design, symbolizing the individuality and spirit of each piece.

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