The Xhosa and Zulu word for “beauty” is Ubuhle. It is also the right word to describe a new form of bead art, developed by a community of women living in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. “Ubuhle ...

The women who created the artwork in Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence “paint” with beads. Each “canvas” is composed of a myriad of tiny glass beads sewn into black cloth stretched ...

Mar. 4—WILKES-BARRE — This traveling exhibition of stunning bead-art from South Africa tells a luminous story of independence, migration and memory. Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence ...

The Society of the Four Arts brings brightness and color to Palm Beach with the art exhibition, Ubuhle Women, Beadwork and the Art of Independence, which opened Nov. 14 and runs through Jan. 17, 2021.

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Heritage month invites South Africans to reflect on and celebrate the rich traditions that make us who we are. And if there is one tradition that beautifully ties the past to the present, it is ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Twenty years ago on a sugar plantation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Bev Gibson and Ntombephi “Induna” Ntobela founded a collective called Ubuhle (pronounced uh-boo-klay), which ...

Diane Fitzgerald uses beads the way an artist uses color. She buys a palette of beads that she likes and begins to assemble them – incrementally, so the piece evolves as it’s designed. “Beading was a ...