Howdy Makers, just getting back in saddle from Burning Man 2006, an arts festival held for 8 days in Nevada on the playa of the Black Rock Desert with 40,000 people, many of them Makers. In fact, besides the ticket price, the other requirement that seemed to be present was the Maker spirit. I’ve never […]
By Arwen O’Reilly I saw this exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York two years ago, and I am fervently grateful that I got the chance to see it again. The show is of approximately 60 quilts from Gee’s Bend, a community in rural Alabama that was isolated for decades because of its placement […]
The Art Buggy Derby will be held on Sunday, October 15th in Washington Square Park in Philly. It is both an intense race of speed and a fierce competition of ingenuity. It’s about building the fastest buggy that will cruise across the finish line first. But it’s also about building a buggy that creates art […]
There’s some new photos up on flickr (and in the MAKE and CRAFT flickr pools) showing the building process of Institute for Figuring exhibit, “The Business Card Menger Sponge” by Dr. Jeannine Mosely which is now on display at Machine Project (1200 D North Alvarado) in Los Angeles from August 26 – September 24, 2006 […]
There will be a Plush You workshop at The Richard Hugo House on September 30th at 11:30am. Blair of Wise Craft will be teaching you how tomake your own “Wee” soft toy based on Hillary Lang’s “Wee Wonderfuls Wee” pattern. (See all the variety in the Wee pool in flickr.) The workshop is $10 and […]
Team “Kiddie Pool-o-Def” wanted us to know about the upcoming Portland Adult Soap Box Derby on Saturday, September 9th. “An interesting group, ranging from those out for maximum speed to those avoiding speed in creative ways (including ours). Previous years have had 1/4 scale Winnebago’s, canoes, pirate ships, kiddie pools, giant snow balls, boom boxes, […]
The idea for Maven: Urban Design + Craft Fair was born from the final project in Adjowah Brodie’s graphic design class at San Francisco City College. The professor asked the class to design a two color poster that captured the essence of a place or event, and Adjowah, an Oakland based jewelry designer, made a […]
