Teri Greeves

Anderson Lecture – October 28, 2024

Teri Greeves (Kiowa) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was born on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. When she was a child, her mother, Jeri Ah-be-hill, owned a trading post that specialized in Native American art and textiles. By the age of eight, Greeves began learning the craft of beadwork from her grandmother, aunt, and mother. Drawing on the long Native American craft tradition, Greeves has committed to detailing her experience as a 21st-century Kiowa woman through her beadwork. She utilizes both traditional and nontraditional materials, both oral histories and contemporary Kiowa realities, to craft narratives on buckskin, sneakers, umbrellas, miniature tipis, and other everyday objects.