Before the beads clad artist Dyani White Hawk’s sculpture, before they caught curators’ eyes, they were held in her bead workers’ hands. If White Hawk, one of Minnesota’s most in-demand artists, were to bead one of her works alone, it would take years. So to create the big, intricately beaded pieces that are becoming her signature, the Sičáŋǧu Lakota artist has enlisted family members to work in her northeast Minneapolis studio. They include her mother-in-law, her cousin, her daughter. A sister-in-law, recruited while in town for a powwow. Friends who have become family, too.