Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter

A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.

Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter
An image of Susan Hudson"Tears or our Children, Tears for our Children," as displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian'/>

A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.

(Image credit: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (26/9331). Photo by NMAI Photo Services)