Year: 2011

Scott Weaver will talk about his passion for working with toothpicks, and what drove him to spend 35 years on a single massive project.

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s WOOD.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Shih Chieh Huang (“Cj”) will display one of his mind-bending multimedia art pieces. He uses recycled plastic and found objects to create otherwordly installations.

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s PLASTICS.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Bernie Lubell has installed a wooden collaborative machine in the Tinkering Studio that will allow visitors to slowly whittle a dowel down to a single toothpick, which will then be added to Scott’s piece.

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s WOOD.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Jessica Hobbs will talk about the massive wooden structures that she installs on the playa at Burning Man.

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s WOOD.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Lanny Smoot will showcase his incredible strobing zoetrope. You’ll be able to lipsync a Ping-Pong ball to your voice!

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s PLASTICS.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Saul Griffith will bring these four months of Materiality to an end, by talking about his elephants that he built in each of our four highlighted materials: plastic, cardboard, metal, and wood.

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s WOOD.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Shawn Lani’s Strobe Flower lanterns will be installed in the Tinkering Studio. A simple plastic bag becomes a thing of beauty.

Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s PLASTICS.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.