Mary Tafoya was raised in Kentucky,  received her B.A. in Fine Arts in 1983 from UNM, and  teaches graphic arts. she discovered beadwork and its rich and ancient world traditions. She  writies for Beadwork magazine. Online, she maintains Aunt Molly's Bead Street .

" Good beadwork creates a kind of hyper-reality, objects which seem to have their own consciousness. Working in bead embroidery, I draw from mythology, folklore, women's issues, childhood scenes in Kentucky and  life in New Mexico."

Road Trip detail
"9 x 12" wall piece

Medusa "6 x 9"
Hand Mirror

Before the Millenium
Belt Buckle