LT's Expressions has been providing quality Beaded Jewelry, Bead Art and  Handmade Lampworked Beads since our founding in 1994 (first as LT’s Treasures, and now as LT’s Expressions). It is our mission to educate others about the therapeutic and healing power of beads, bead art, and making of lampworked beads. We believe the best way to achieve this goal is to coordinate with other artists, network about  ideas and philosophies, and to share, share, SHARE our Art with one another.

Honoring her ancestry is a major motivation and inspiration for Stacy Braiuca's glass art. As an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she is a self-proclaimed "Potawatomi Girl Playing with Fire". This phrase is a lighthearted twist on the Potwatomi's place as Keepers of the Ceremonial Fire for the nations of the Potawatomi, the Odawa, and the Ojibwe. Stacy is quite serious though about not only her ancestry, but her glass, and considers each piece she creates a personification of her thoughts and prayers for the eventual recipient.

As the daughter of a quilter and granddaughter of several artists, she has been creating seed bead art since she was a child, and flameworked glass art since 2004. By profession, Stacy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and currently works as a Research Associate in the Program in American Indian Community Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the regional resource for health for Native Americans in Missouri and Kansas .  She is also in private practice as a Clinical Social Worker where she often combines her experience as an artist and her social work to teach relaxation and stress reduction through the arts to her clients.

Bode’wadmikwe widoko shkote…                Potawatomi Girl, Playing with Fire…

 

                   Bye' bid ge'k...                                              (Welcome Y'all, Come In...)

 

G neshnabemon ne?  Hau, wenet e'gi bya yen shote. Hau, nwi madmo e'wi gnozhot ode Mnedo.

 

(Do you speak Indian?  Oh, it is good that you came here.  Oh, I shall pray this spirit blesses you.)

Ahau, bama pi gwi kigdomen mine ngoji.     

(Oh, we shall speak again somewhere.) 

 

Ahau, ik she e’najmoyan ngom.

(Ok, this is what I have had to say for today.)

Stacy (aka LT)                                           

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