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Laura Tandeske: Mental Wellness and the Art of Embroidery
Speaker: Laura Tandeske
Presentation: Embroidery is an ancient art dating back to the beginning of civilization. It developed in cultures all around the globe. It has been an appreciated and valued art form through the centuries and now is being discovered and recognized for a different reason. It’s good for mental health and wellness.
I will share my personal journey of 50+ years embroidering and how it has helped my wellbeing. I will also show examples of how embroidery is being used to help many people, like the organizations that have been working with veterans and prisoners. I will also show some local artist’s work and discuss how the work was beneficial to their wellness.
Speaker Bio: Laura Tandeske learned to embroider at the early age of 5 years old. After being mostly self taught she wanted a more formal education in art and embroidery. She studied Fine Art at California State University East Bay, and embroidery with the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and San Francisco School of Needlework and Design. She has been teaching embroidery for 9 years. Her piece called, “Balance,” toured the United States and Canada as part of the two year Sixteenth National Exhibit with the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. She has won numerous awards including “Best in Show” at the California State Fair in Sacramento.
Laura is also a biochemist with 32 year’s experience at Chiron/Novartis working in early stage drug discovery research for Oncology, Infectious Diseases, and Diagnostics. She brings this scientific and experimental mind to her Embroidery work.
You can visit her website.
DATE: Tuesday, April 21 , 2026, 6:45-8:30pm via zoom Meeting, the meeting will open at 6:45 and the presentation will begin promptly at 7pm.
COST: Free to members; $5.00 for non-members or purchase an annual membership for $25.
Payment for Non-Members ($5.00):
To prepare, please go to https://zoom.us/ and follow the directions to access Zoom®. Sadly, BSNC can not provide tech support.
Please RSVP to judysinclair@beadsocietyofnorcal.org. She will send out the Zoom meeting information prior to each class/speaker event and follow up with a reminder email. Spaces are limited, so please RSVP early.