This event is a do-it-yourself art project using beads caught at Mardi Gras parades. Event organizers say guests can enjoy a fun night while upcycling beads to make a custom piece of art to take home.

Each year, bead by bead, she spends over 40 hours a week creating her Black Masking Indian suit as Queen of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indian ... to create both theme art and the logo for ...

I knew not the art of catching a throw listed by Vincent Spear in his 1969 pamphlet, Techniques of Mardi Gras Throw-Catching ... are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World War II ...