Are you including contemporary Native American beadwork as tacky/kitsch?
I think NA beadwork would make a wonderful foil to the stuff you mentioned.

On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Thomas Kavanagh, Curator wrote:

> We are preparing an exhibit on beadwork world wide. We have all kinds of
> neat beaded stuff (thats technical talk) from
>
>
> all over. But when we
> started looking at modern American beadwork--besides "high fashion"
> sorts of things--all we seemed to find were "tacky" arts and crafts,
> plastic beads on safety pins linked together to form holders for
> silk flowers, that sort of thing. That lead us to several questions:
> -what is the difference between kitsch and tacky?
> -do other cultures have kitsch? [not just tourist art]?
> -does anyone have any bibliographhic citations for studies of American
> kitsch, lawn art, etc?
> -is there an American Studies list-server or newsgroup?
> Your comments will be appreciated.
> tk
>