The Bead Society Program for June is titled "Louvre de Roches." It will be Wednesday, June 7th at       7 pm Pacific Time on Zoom. Our speaker is Ken Rogers. Ken will guide us through the amazing images in his Louvre de Roches. 

 Wednesday  June 7th, 7 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 
All are welcome! 

As Ken says, 

There are many beautiful pictures and images hidden away inside numerous regular rocks and gemstones. These wonderful treasures are just waiting to be discovered. I have cut open various mundane stones, and discovered their hidden treasures. Some of these beautiful images look like an Ansel Adams photograph, and others look like a painting hanging in the Louvre. These wonderful images include: faces, animals, people, plants/flowers, landscapes (desert, aquatic, and outer space scenes), and much more. 

The Bead Society Program for May is titled "My Bead Journey." It will be Wednesday, May 3rd at 7 pm Pacific Time.  Our speaker is Doris Weinbaum who opened a bead store in 1993, without knowing how to bead. Doris will tell the story of her serendipitous journey from neophyte bead entrepreneur to accomplished bead artist. Her bead store is in Oak Park, Illinois. She sold it iand lives in San Clemente now. 

Wednesday May 3rd  7 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 
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All are welcome! 
​Business meeting at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address! ​

Doris Weinbaum has been involved with beads, both as a businesswoman and an artist/teacher since 1993. In that year Doris opened a retail bead shop in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. While owning and managing the shop, Doris began learning beading techniques and jewelry design from instructors in her store, books and customers. Given her breadth of experience with many other hand-crafts, including sewing, knitting and crocheting, Doris' talent for beading blossomed. Doris has had one of her original designs published and has taught a wide range of beading techniques to children and adults. 

The Bead Society presents the 2nd annual Black History Month presentations by local artists on February 1st. Since February is Black History Month, what better way to celebrate it than by presenting artists who bring us African American beads, jewelry and other art!  The event is hosted by Sylvia Humphrey. 

Our presenters will demonstrate various genres of artwork, some have multiple areas. Two of our presenters participated last year and this year they are teaching our younger generation their art skills and knowledge. This can be very impactful in so many ways on a young person's life journey. We hope to see you next Wednesday, Feb 1st at 7 pm. 
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​See the slide show above for a previews of some pictures from our Artists. Eddie Stokes, Sandra Sherman Designs, and Regina Higgins-Rainmaker​ will be joining the panel.
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Wednesday Feb 1st, 7 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 
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All are welcome! 
​Business meeting at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address! ​

Thanks to Sylvia for coordinating this topic and all the panelists! ​

The January 4th online program meeting will feature Terry Henry, a glass artist! Terry will show a movie on how she makes her Northern lights or Galaxy bead and how she makes her floral components.  From her bio, Terry started out as a geologist and hydrologist. 

 "I have travelled to Italy twice to take flameworking classes and appreciate the beauty and history of Italy. I have traveled to New Zealand, taught at Fenton Glass Factory in West Virginia, and have exhibited and taught in Tucson, Arizona for the last 9 years. For the past 6 years I have traveled to Canada to participate and instruct at the Molten Experience. I believe working on the edge had been the biggest factor in my ability to grow as an artist." 

See the pictures above and below, and prepare to be wowed! Terry will also be at the Pasadena Bead & Design Show at the Hilton Pasadena starting  on January 6-8, 2023.  Her website is Terry Henry Glassworks. 

​Wednesday Jan 4th, 7 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 
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All are welcome! 
​Business meeting at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address! ​

The November 2nd program meeting of the Bead Society is titled, Picture Books We Know and Love, Bead & Jewelry Books, of Course!
This is a sharing session where members and participants can share their favorite books regarding beads and jewelry. These can be books with wonderful pictures of beads, or books that show interesting techniques, or historical works about cultural aspects of adornment! 
You can hold up the books, or take pictures of pages and share the pictures. The Bead Society has a LibraryThing account if you would like to see a listing of some fascinating books that we have available in our library! 

Wednesday Nov 2nd 7 pm Pacific Time

Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 
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All are welcome! 
​Business meeting at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address!​

The summer is almost over and we are back with our Monthly Meetings! Hope everyone had a healthy and fruitful summer! Our September Meeting is on Corals with Vice President, Lillian Todaro leading with a presentation!

Lillian Todaro will speak about Corals and Coral Jewelry. She will have large pieces to show, charts, and pictures of how Coral has been used in adornment since ancient times. Also, we all want to see your Coral pieces so bring them to share and talk about. 

Wednesday September 7, 2022 7 pm Pacific Time 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8998832615?pwd=UktmV0dKcXRsZzE1Z0JwM1FKMmdiQT09

Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615
Passcode: Beads

Business meeting at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address. This is the official first meeting of the year, so it's a great time to join the Bead Society!  See you there! 

​We recently received a message from Ken Rogers:
 
"Every Sunday morning I record a (favorite) TV program, "CBS Sunday Morning".  I just played it back and the program had a segment named, "Women's Work": Art by women, known and unknown. It is about an art exhibit in the Lyndhurst Mansion Museum, Terrytown, N.Y.

The exhibit included pieces going back a few hundred years, along with contemporary women artists.  Beads were/are an important medium of women artists. The program segment included: a beaded toilet & toilet paper; a beaded can of beaded candy; a large "rotting Lemon", etc. If you're interested in "Women's Work" and beads, I suggest you might find this "CBS Sunday Morning" segment online."

The rotting beaded lemon by Kathleen Ryan is particularly impressive! Google led me to a number of her works of rotting fruit. Who whould have thought! 

Thanks, Ken, for alerting us to this interesting video about this exhibit in New York. Check it out! 

The Bead Society June program will focus on ​Found Objects as Alternative Jewelry Components. Think nuts & bolts, gears, carabiners, springs, keys, toys and other unusual objects! It will be a sharing session! Bring some of your unusual bracelets, necklaces, etc. that you have made or discovered with alternate parts. All are welcome!

Wednesday June 1st, 7:00 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads

The Bead Society Business meeting is at 6:30 pm, Elections will be held. Find out more about our fall Bazaar and Pop-Up plans! Same Zoom info, all are welcome! 

The picture above was located via lilruby on Flickr.