Siobhan Kekoa in the Artist Studio
Date & Time
Saturday, October 17, 2026
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
This event is in the past.
Tickets
FREE admission in
celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day
Photo by Siobhan Kekoa
Siobhan will be making pairs of her Ancestral Wabanaki porcupine quill earrings from start to finish. This includes the quills that she will be cleaning and trimming in the Artist Studio, and other materials like glass seed beads.
More information on her process can be found on her website.
About the Artist
Born in Hilo, Hawai'i, Siobhan Kekoa (Barrett) is a 5th Generation mixed Afro-Indigenous Wabanaki-descent professional Educator, Designer, and Artist, Traditional Medicine Practitioner, and disabled Air Force Veteran.
Her work is steeped in her ancestral Indigenous traditions and each piece is intentionally created with Good Medicine. She has exhibited and sold her art at shows and galleries around the Greater Seattle area since 2015, and loves being able to offer beautiful, lasting pieces in many forms. Her mediums include oil, watercolor, and mixed media paintings, drawings, and quillwork jewelry.
Her Indigenous Elders of her Bear Clan Wabanaki blood lineage have honored her in learning, carrying forward, preserving, and sharing their unique ancestral style of quill earrings, traditions, and history. She is deeply grateful for the trust placed in her to design new bead patterns, styles, and her signature finish. Her pieces are dedicated to her Elder Shadowhawke, Tomiki Bear, and Grandmothers.
Her Scot-Irish family have long created as well, and she is filled with gratitude for the collected abilities, gifts and knowledge passed down. She hopes to honor her Elders, Ancestors, and Peoples through her work.
Siobhan lives in the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Salish peoples in Si'ahl (Seattle), Washington, with her child and their two cats, Cedar and Morticia.
