January Artist of the Month

 

Chela Lujan grew up tucked between her mother and father and the canvas lining of the tipi listening to the sound of a water drum and gourd, and prayers from mouths of relatives pouring medicine into a sacred fire. With steady hands like the drum, her mother taught her that first lesson on a bead loom when she was a child. When she turned twenty-three, she was brought back to that ‘Way’. Chela returned to the Fireplace, to the Ribs and to the Moon. And so, with the water drum and gourd beating strong and steadily in her heart, she began to bead again; remembering what her mother had shown her, weaving tales much like the spider weaves her web. No knots, just a good path in a good way. Find more of her work on Instagram and on her website:  www.roadsideremedies.com