Ayuthea LaPier

Ayuthea LaPier is an Indigenous weaver, beadworker, and illustrator of Hanis Coos heritage who works to bring good fire back to land. They teach beadwork and regalia-making to community members. In 2024 they received the LIFT award from the Native Arts and Culture Foundation and were a Fernland Studios Ecological Arts Fellow. LaPier's current project, with Coos, Quiich, and Siuslaw women, is a replica of a repatriated Miluk Coos dress from the early 1900s, aimed at recording the techniques used at that time.