Two new exhibits, displaying beadwork from cultures on opposite ends of the globe, open this month at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. “Plateau Pictorial Beadwork: The Fred L. Mitchell ...

Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit’s MBAD African Bead Museum, is the Kresge Eminent Artist for 2022. The award, presented by the Kresge Foundation, includes $50,000 in recognition of lifetime ...

Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum isn’t going anywhere. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the unique Detroit institution founded by artist and collector Olayami Dabls in 1998 would be closing its ...

The brightly colored mural hanging in the lobby of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, part of a traveling exhibit opening today, took museum staff much of a day to hang - the scene of a ...

Olayame Dabls has a vision for Detroit. It s a dream he s cultivated for the better part of 23 years as a local historian and collector of all things African. Standing in front of the brightly ...

Olayami Dabls looks at his collapsed MBAD African Bead Museum building before it gets demolished. Credit: Kriss Putnins An 11th-hour appeal to save a collapsed building that was part of Detroit’s MBAD ...

Ntombephi Ntobela is now known as “Induna,” or leader, among her art group. Years ago, though, she was hand-stitching beaded items to supplement the small amount her husband made as a cane cutter on a ...

The fate of a partially collapsed building on the grounds of Detroit’s Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum hangs in the air as of Wednesday evening. Plans to demolish the building early Tuesday morning ...

A partially collapsed building on the grounds of Detroit’s Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum was demolished Tuesday by orders from the city of Detroit, bringing a brief but passionate struggle to a close ...

Detroit - Inside an old building adorned with a bright eye-catching mural made of beads on Detroit’s west side is a man who tells stories about the history of African beads. Olayami Dabls, 73, of ...

African Waist Beads come in various dimensions and also colors. They likewise vary in style. There are beads that are rounded, hexagonal, cuneate, and several others. The African languages use quite ...