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 ...

Detroit is home to an unusual museum that draws on African history and customs, filling an entire city block with installations and sculptures. The MBAD African Bead Museum also allows visitors ...

The Giles & Brother designer has sourced vintage African beads in summery sherbet colors and threaded them in wafer-like stacks on simple silver chains to make a beautiful glass bead necklace.

OSHKOSH – It's hard to miss the colorful, nearly 15-foot-tall cross hanging in the Paine Art Center and Garden's first-floor gallery, and it only takes one glance to appreciate the effort that must ...