Teri Greeves
Teri Greeves (b. 1970) was born on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and is an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. Her mother Jeri Ah-be-hill owned a trading post on the reservation in Wyoming among the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, where Greeves gained a deep understanding of a range of Native American art forms. At an early age Greeves was drawn to a variety of tribal beadwork traditions and began working in the medium at the age of eight. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies in 1995. Currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Greeves has developed her own visual language by combining the abstract, geometric... more.