Event
Connect & Create: Beading Circle with Rain Black
October 9, 2025 5:30PM to 7:00PM
LUAG Lower Gallery
Join us this fall for a community beading circle with local artist, Rain Black! This Connect & Create is an inter-tribal community space open to allies—no beading experience needed. Come and learn the basics or bring projects you’re already working on. Please note that the tools and beads are small. While the circle is geared towards beading, you may bring other types of crafts (no paint or wet materials, please!) to work on.
If you require assistance filling out this form, prefer to share your registration information via email or phone, or have questions, concerns, or any accessibility needs, please email Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-6882.
Rain Black, M.P.H., CPH (He/They) is an unenrolled Cherokee and Choctaw descendent two spirit artist who specializes in watercolor, beadwork, and nature based artwork. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Public Health and Art from Cedar Crest College. He holds a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of South Florida and is Certified in Public Health. They are a community educator with 8 years of experience focusing on topics around domestic and intimate partner abuse, queer and transgender justice, foraged art making, life skills, indigenous approaches to environment restoration, and public health. They are a founding organizer of Queer & Trans Lehigh Valley and serve on the board of Basement Poetry and Widoktadwen Center for Native Knowledge.
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Connect & Create workshops offer a brief exploration and creative conversation around a work of art from the LUAG collection, followed by a hands-on activity and/or creative response led by a local teaching artist or student educator.
