There’s an international invitational exhibition of glass beads at the Immenhausen Glass Museum in Germany. Seven glass sculptors were challenged to work on the scale of glass bead artists; the artists come from all over the world, and they and the bead artists are presenting their interpretation of Shakespeare’s Tempest in one glass bead each.…

Check your local listings — Education Director Christy Puetz was interviewed about The Bead Museum and its collection, and about Beads of Courage. Beads of Courage is an arts-in-medicine program for children with serious illness.

On display until January 16th at the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa, Texas, is The Art of English Beadwork from the 19th Century. It includes over 50 objects from the 19th Century Victorian beadwork collection of Sandra Bassett of Dallas. The works are Victorian functional objects such as trays and benches and purses, decorated…