Where we live there aren't many businesses. Big dreams are hard to come by. But we are both hardship and unbelievable beauty. Four years ago on a tiny Rez house on a dead end road we waited. We lived next to the amazing Pat and the now deceased Jim Northrup for 10 years. Pat is one of those Aunties. The one who raises everyone's children and would give you the clothes off her back. Pat was a touchstone of our community. Their family had followed the development of Heart Berry from its beginnings as a beadwork hustle. When I began working with the Inspired Natives Project Pat would stay up to date on all my doings. She knew I was waiting...
CNN featured Heart Berry along with other cultural artists and designers about mask making in our communities. Read the article here:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ethnic-group-culture-face-masks-trnd/index.html
Today we are busy making masks to donate to our local lunch delivery workers. We have created a new easy mask making tutorial which takes 7 minutes!
Miigwech to all our essential workers.
Seeing our art around? Us too and its absolutely intoxicating. PC Nedahness Greene And right now so much of it seems like no brainers. Of course, there should be the art of the original people greeting visitors as they enter Duluth. But it takes the light shone by our mentors, like Louie Gong, to show us what we aren't seeing in the dark of the hustle. "Louie has made me cry, more times than I would like to admit." Heart Berry CEO, Howes admits "But everytime I listen, he's dead on. And I know that he genuinely is invested in me." Mentors hold us to a high standard because they can see it. So much has changed in such a...
Like so many of you we care about our role as stewards of our homelands. During these times more of us are shopping online than ever before. As a small, native owned business, we work to be innovative and choose partners who share these values. Our partners and printer Track Club Co in Minneapolis http://www.trackclubco.com/ are completely Solar Powered! Our shirts from All Made are made from Recycled polyester and Organic Cotton https://www.allmade.com/pages/about https://www.heartberry.com/collections/all/products/medicine-dress-t We are COMPLETELY nerding out on our new exciting way we re use and compost packing materials~ We reuse packing materials, repeat box use, recycle, and now we are COMPOSTING our boxes once they cannot be reused. Our new Huguel garden created near our Heart Berry HQ~ We take...
As the Minnesota Historical Society Residency wraps up, Heart Berry artist Agaton Howes shared about this important project, their journey, and why cultural art matters.
