When Mike Schur, Ed Helms and I pitched our show “Rutherford Falls,” I wore my “power pieces” to every meeting. I sported Native American jewelry that I knew would make me enter each ro…
,” I wore my “power pieces” to every meeting. I sported Native American jewelry that I knew would make me enter each room with my chin a little higher, and my back a little more straight. On my wrist was an ornately designed silver bracelet by Navajo silversmith Cody Sanderson.
As a fifth-generation Navajo tapestry weaver, I grew up at gallery openings, Native art markets, and world-famous museums. So I had no idea mainstream culture treated Native art and fashion as something evoking low class or frivolous characters. Think of the folks on TV shows who wear Native American jewelry. It’s usually “Groovy Yoga Instructor” in tacky turquoise, the “Douchey Blind Date” with 20 beaded bracelets or the “Annoying Mother in Law” in a gaudy knock-off concho belt.
I staffed two beadwork artists, Jana Schmeiding and the aforementioned fashion icon Bobby Wilson. Both are talented, hilarious writers and performers, but I would have hired them using only their beadwork as writing samples. Their jewelry is insanely detailed, bursting with personality, and always carries a swagger and a wink. Jana was eventually cast as Reagan Wells, the co-lead.
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