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Soapstone Bead Workshop with Elizabeth James-Perry

May 17, 2025, 1:00 pm - May 17, 2025, 5:00 pm

Deerfield Community Center 16 Memorial Street Deerfield, MA 01342 + Google Map

Category: Hands-On

Soapstone Bead Workshop with Elizabeth James-Perry

Date: May 17

Time: 1–5 p.m.

Location: Deerfield Community Center

Join 2023 NEA Heritage award recipient Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag) for a workshop on making soapstone beads. She will teach you how to use a pump drill so that you can drill and take home your own special bead. Perry engages with Northeastern Woodlands Native cultural expressions, primarily in sculptural forms of wampum shell-carving and bead-making with its connection to identity and sovereignty, maritime traditions and restorative Native gardening.

$100/$95 (members)

Registration coming soon.