PLEASE NOTE: As of Tuesday, March 3, this workshop is SOLD OUT.

$40 per person. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary. Materials included. Registration required by Wednesday, February 26 (for the February 29 date). Click the Book Your Tour button to sign up.

Registration required by Wednesday, March 4 (for the March 7 date). Click the Book Your Tour button to sign up.

Participants will have exclusive access to and a customized tour of our Sacred Adornment: Jewelry as Belief in Ancient Egypt exhibition as well as jewelry displayed in our Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Galleries. This will be followed by a make-your-own beading workshop focusing on the symbolism of beads throughout history. There will be a marketplace offering items for purchase including special beads from Africa.

Artist statement from the instructor, Gail Simons:

I have been fascinated with beads from around the world starting with my first viewings of National Geographic magazines in second grade. Through the years I have studied beads as to the materials from which they are created, their symbolism, and their history. Beads have been used for body décor since the first cave person put a cord through a stone with a hole in it. In making my jewelry I look for the story the beads have to tell and try to bring that alive through creative design. One goal is that my inspiration as the artist is translated into jewelry that might then inspire the wearer.