Plan to attend the

Annual Membership Meeting

May 15, 2012

Vote for Board Members

Vote on the updated by-laws

Choose a charity

Renew your membership

Sign up for the Bead Arts Gala

Bring your work for the Silent Auction

Buy other members work to benefit charity

Eat, talk, and generally have a good time!

Bring a potluck dish

Bring beadwork

Bring your checkbook (or money)

Bring the forms already filled out and save time

And, as always, bring beads for the cup/keg

NEWSLETTERS

May 2012

April 2012

March 2012

Get it here as well as in your mailbox and on Facebook. Please let us know what you think of delivering it this way at the next meeting.

Forms for upcoming events:

Featured artist nomination

Board nomination

Membership application

Charity nomination

Bead Arts Gala/Membership combination

Charity auction beadwork donation

15th Annual Bead Arts Gala

was AMAZING! -- Plan ahead

for the #16 which will be

October 13-14, 2012

Anchorage Museum of History & Art

Featured artist: Jeannie Bench

Join us!

Monthly meetings are open to anyone who's interested in beads! Our meetings offer something for everyone.

• Hands-on beading demonstrations
• Techniques, up close and persona
• Bead swaps
• Trunk shows
• Bead art challenges
• Celebrity artist lectures and workshops
• "Bead travelogues"
• Monthly and annual bead drawings
• Monthly show and tell and bead recycle tables
• Annual Charity auction

Bead retreats are our version of the traditional slumber party. Relax and have fun with your own projects.

Annual Bead Expo occurs every October. Vendor space is exclusively reserved for members.

 

 

 

 

 

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