The BSGW Mission is:

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• To encourage the scholarly study of beads, which are among the oldest, most universal, and enduring artifacts of mankind.

• To provide educational opportunities for bead mavens/lovers to expand their knowledge of beads.

• To foster public appreciation of beads as objects of beauty that have been used not only for adornment but as status symbols and protective amulets in ancient, ethnic, and contemporary cultures.

• To stimulate the creative spirit of bead artists and craftspeople interested in making beads, designing jewelry or using beads in other art forms.

The Society Pursues its Mission by:

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• Disseminating knowledge and education through lectures by artists in the field, archeologists, historians, and collectors.

• Sharing our resources through our research library - open to our members.

• Providing a scholarship to study the Bead Timeline of History donated by the BSGW to and permanently housed at the Peabody Institute at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The BSGW Promotes:

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• Cultural understanding through the interpretation of beads;

  • What beads tell us about people

    • the men and women who have worn them and made them, traded them and treasured them

    • their aesthetic impulses and artistic abilities

    • their technological skills and trading patterns

    • their hopes and fears and social roles

• Exploration of bead making, stringing, design techniques and bead art.

 

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