Jamie Okuma
Jamie Okuma
Visual Artist, Fashion Designer (1977-)
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"With my work, people can see what actual native design looks like. I'm drawn to ultra-expensive styles and creative shapes."
"With my work, people can see what actual native design looks like. I'm drawn to ultra-expensive styles and creative shapes."
Jamie Okuma is a Native American artist from California who has combined beadwork with fashion. Her work displays her culture's traditional beading in a modern, high-end medium.
Okuma beading Louboutin boots
Connection to the Classroom
Okuma's work fits perfectly into a beading unit to show students that Native art is still being created today and not part of the past as mainstream culture portrays.
