I am interested in activating communities with beads. This started in 2022 when I attended the Flaherty Seminar for the 6th time since 2000. I brought a handful of beads with me to share as a kind of offering/ice-breaker (I’m shy!). Putting them on our name tag lanyards transformed them into something else and I was thrilled to be invited to create a set of 200 beads for the 70th Flaherty Seminar that echoed the visual identity for the year’s Seminar inspired by Bill Brand’s public artwork Masstransiscope. An honor and thrill to be part of this!