Asia Tail is an artist and curator based in Tacoma, Washington. She attended the Cooper Union School of Art in New York on a full-tuition scholarship and graduated with a BFA and a prize for excellence in painting in 2014. As an extension of her creative practice, Asia handcrafts wearable beadwork in contemporary colors and forms. Using glass seed beads and sterling silver, she explores cross-cultural trade, matriarchy, and ancestral memory through her designs. Asia is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and a member of the diverse urban Native community in the Pacific Northwest.
