GLOBAL PROJECT 2024:  Honoring the Ndebele

It is a great pleasure to launch our fifth annual global project through International Bead Week.  Norgard Designs is grateful to The Beadworkers Guild for creating International Beading Week.  Thank you for facilitating this inspiring event and for helping support our efforts to produce global work that helps educate, soothe and inspire bead workers around the world.  

I’d also like to thank my team: specifically, Lylian Castro, Carol Romano Geraghty, Prof. Maggie Horvath, Bonnie Lankard, Georgette Mayo, Andrea O’Brian Morrisey, Prof. Emeritus Deborah Mosch, Prof. Emeritus Dawn Peterson, Angel Romano, Anvi Shah, Kathryn Shriver, and Patti Zureick.  Always positive, energetic and supportive this truly is the team that makes the dream work. 

As in the past we are posting lessons and lectures.  You will learn about the Ndebele people and how to create Ndebele ropes.  In design, you will learn what it means to have a dominant color in a color scheme and how to create patterns both in surface and form. You will be treated to a beautiful series of lectures crafted by Kathryn Shriver.  These lectures will help broaden your knowledge of the bead world and help you imagine more that is possible.  And finally, you will be offered the opportunity to contribute to a world class beadwork that will be part of our series of 10 works.  Come join in for another wonderful celebration of the bead world.