Happy Thursday Maker Friends. We are gearing up for a gorgeous day outside and plenty of hot projects on deck for today. We will be adding classes to our calendar and prepping for this weekends classes where we will be exploring Molding and Casting with our special guest artist and instructor Scot! We are looking to meet more amazing makers, who should we talk to and what businesses should we visit this week to get to know?
Next Friday is our monthly Open Build Night (first Friday of each month) from 7pm – 10pm. If you have been wanting to come by, tour the space and meet other makers this is a great evening to get started. If you have a project to show off, need some help with or to see other peoples projects, come join us!
Continuing with our theme this week we are highlighting female makers with some inspiration to try some new things out and now on to this excerpt from Erica Tesla.
6 Women Who Need a Makerspace, part 3 (by Erica Tesla)
3. The multimedia artist
If you’re into painting, you probably have room for some paints and brushes at home. Into knitting? Needles and yarn are compact if you’re not a craft-hoarder like me. Maybe you’ve got a garage where you can keep a circular saw if you like to build stuff.
Multimedia art is an entirely different story: Most people don’t have the space for a bunch of sets of tools for different crafts. That’s makerspace’s bread and butter: Keeping the tools around so you don’t have to. Then if you decide that what you really want to make is a machine-knitted tapestry with embedded electronics, you can have the knitting machines, yarn, electronics, and soldering equipment you need without taking on a second apartment to store it all and a second job to pay for it.
As a bonus, you can count on other makers with varying levels of expertise to offer advice or hands-on help: The artist responsible for that electronic tapestry had dozens of volunteers help her solder electronic connections on her fabric pieces (see pic here).
Excerpt from http://www.xojane.com/healthy/6-women-who-need-a-makerspace-including-me
Got an idea you want to make? Something you saw on pinterest that inspired you? Something you want to fix? Something new you want to try? Don’t wait any longer. Now is your time to visit, learn enough to be dangerous with a new skill, make something AWESOME and maybe change the world, like other members here are doing, one day at a time!
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