The initiative for a one-day event often derives from a holiday. The Bead Project at Massachusetts College of Art is an intensive jewelry-making enterprise held at Christmas time. Last year, students fashioned four hundred pieces of jewelry out of thousands of donated beads. The jewelry was then given to neighborhood women as holiday gifts. Christmas success sparked a second bead extravaganza for Mother s Day, when students worked with local children to turn homemade jewelry into Mother s Day gifts.
From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy
Website: Under Co-Curricular Activities in the Service Learning section of http://www.massart.edu/at_massart/
