Our Crazy-Collaborative-Interactive-Show:
We are having an Art/Tech/Craft Showcase and Make-A-Long!
Barrel of Makers presents THINGS MADE. . .by these people: Josh Martin, Kristina M. Goverts, Katie Kerr, Brian Scatasti, Killbear, Jason Fawcett, Bonaia Rosado, Reid Rowlands, Carol Maurer, Nancy Breslin, Ben Lewis, Emily Rosaio, Aaron Knipe, Jeff Turi, Brian Givens, Anne Yoncha, and Jessica S. Taylor. See and buy art/photography/hand-crafted objects, get a wooden pen made on the spot, watch an engineer make a phone drive an RC car, make a bouncy ball, & listen to chill music. Bring yourself, or yourself plus anything you’d like to work on with us during the evening. Have fun and get educated by accident. Opening reception Friday, November 2nd 5-9PM Closing reception: Friday, November 30th 5:30-8PM
The Residences at Christiana Landing
115 Christiana Landing Dr
on Wilmington, DE's Riverfront
RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4582388046/eorg
~I'm going to be adding a little blurb on one of the artists to this post each day, as a countdown to the THINGS MADE art/craft/tech show on Nov 2nd.~
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Today's featured maker: Katie Grace Kerr
Katie is our board secretary, and she is always knitting something different. She's been at it since she was 10, and been crocheting since she was 18. Katie is left-handed, so if you are too, she's the perfect teacher. She's also Josh's "#1 assistant in brewing beer, mead, wine, and cider" and in tasting, of course : )
On any given day, her bag is full of works in progress like these. The knitting is in red and orange, and the purple and sliver is crochet.
Josh Martin
Josh is on our Barrel of Makers board of directors. He is a chemical engineer by day. By night and weekend, he makes pens out of wood and acrylic on his lathe, brews great beer, wine, and cider, knits, occasionally writes, plays music, and does some carpentry. As you can see, he's a walking run-on-sentence, and we love him for it.
Josh will be bringing his lathe out of his basement right to our THINGS MADE show on Friday, where he will show you how he uses it to make pens and hair sticks. I got a shot of him working the other day:
The impressive results, in green acrylic for this one:
See his blog for more examples: http://tworavensbrewing.tumblr.com/
Kristina Marie Ellura Goverts
Kristina transforms whole spaces with her work as an installation artist by using wood, sheer fabric, paint, and whatever else she can get her hands on. Kristina also seeks to transfor
m people. She's been teaching art to young people since 1993, and says, "Reaching young artists as they really just begin to work on their future artistic endeavors, bringing their creativity to the surface and nurturing it, is so rewarding and inspiring! My favorite endeavor has been teaching young teens." While it's best to walk through and experience her works, they translate well into photographs, too:
Brian Givens
Brian makes so many different kinds of things that he couldn't fit all of them onto his name tag for the first interest meeting. : )
His projects for THINGS MADE exhibit the breadth of his curiosity:
First, notebooks made from 6-pack beer cartons. I'd call that up-cycling, yeah?
Second, this "lightbox" will cycle RGB colors randomly on the LED under the ping pong ball, or you can select RBG or Hue/Saturation/Lightness values to display a particular color:
Inside that black box are these "inner workings." Brian designed and etched the circuit board, and programmed the microcontroller:
For more proof of Brian's many talents, take some time to be enchanted by the blog of his 365 Day Project: "It's Full of Stars!" He finds a way to make a star, everyday. He'll be sharing one of these daily projects on the 2nd as well: a program he created which uses Pi, out to 1,000 digits, to generate a star field (he made a lot more than one star that day).
So, come out November the 2nd to discuss electronics, micro-controllers, making your own PCB's, etc, with Brian Givens.
Aaron Knipe
Aaron is our website developer. He's also the one who said, at our first interest meeting, that he needs space for high-powered rocketry and setting up a blacksmithing forge. He'll be tinkering, on November 2nd, with a couple of works in progress: a launch box for model rockets (complete with big red button) and getting a cell phone to control an RC car.
Brian Scatasti
A man of many talents–most practiced in the art of ninjitsu and pen and ink. With a 9 to 5 job, Freelance Illustration and Graphic Design work, and creating Delaware's first Makerspace, how can he get it all done, you may ask. He answers, "very very slowly."
"In all seriousness," Brian is a great teammate and co-president. He says he "hopes to one day rid his life of everything but art and teaching others in the best way possible: by building the atmosphere around him to be inspiring, creative, important and full of big badass robots to ride on."
Jeff Turi
I got to meet Jeff yesterday at our meeting, and his energy and passion are infectious. He is president of the First State Woodturners, so he's bringing a collaborative wood piece he created with this group. "Since Barrel of Makers is all about collaboration, I hope this can spark some discussion and future projects."
Here is the YouTube video of the "Magical Marble Maze:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KXn_SZYuwg
Ben Lewis & Emily Rosaio, will be our musical accompaniment. Ben says, "Our music is all acoustic (one guitar and a ukelele). We are a progressive folk band, we call ourselves 'Ben and Em'. "
They'll be treating us to a couple hours of originals and a few covers. Awesome-sauce!
Ben Lewis
http://www.reverbnation.com/benandem
Anne Yoncha
She writes: "My work focuses on humans' interaction with their environment, particularly through the lens of eastern philosophies like Daoism. Most of my paintings are large scale, kaleidoscopic, watery images with abstracted figures interwoven. I work primarily with silk, using a process similar to batik. I squeeze resist on the silk to create a line drawing, then add dye, sometimes in a many-layered process. While I've enjoyed developing this process throughout high school and undergrad, after two years teaching in a title 1 school and a few months studying education at an international school in Costa Rica, I've come to the realization that the arts and creativity are some of the most crucial ways for people to develop their ability to share and expand their perspectives and empathize with others. I am most interested in the intersection between the arts and community building."
She sounds like a great addition to the team, right? Come out to meet her at Sunday's Interest Meeting/PlanningSession or the show on the 2nd, or check out more awesome silk work like this on her website: http://anneyoncha.tumblr.com/
Carol Maurer and Nancy Breslin
Carol has been a great addition to our group. She writes, "Nancy Breslin and I are creating a public art project entitled 'Yarn2Yarns' We will be traveling throughout Wilmington with a shopping cart full of yarn as we share knitting stories and spend time 'yarn-bombing' the cart. Nancy will be filming some of the stories to create a short documentary." The best part is: "everyone is encouraged to add to the cart!"
So, on November 2nd, come join us as we all help turn Nancy and Carol's cart into a colorful, fuzzy collage on wheels. You can follow their progress on their tumblr: http://yarn2yarns.tumblr.com or on their own sites:
Nancy Breslin - www.nancybreslin.com
Carol Maurer - www.backyardpilgrim.blogspot.com
Here is a picture of Carol with one of her "yarn-bomb labyrinths:"
and the finished product:
Bonaia Rosado
"I grew up climbing trees on a mountainside in Puerto Rico in the 1980s with 6 aunts, uncles, my grandparents, parents and whatever random stray dog was found at the farm that week. Because I grew up around so much I understood that everyone is different and those differences were the things I loved about them. When I say “them” I do mean everyone. I am really drawn towards the differences in people that make them unique. The illustration style from the 50’s through the 80’s, I felt, embraced that difference in people. When I draw portraits I try to keep that in mind." Bonaia lives in Wilmington, DE now, and we are psyched to have her in the show. Here's a pic of some of her work, and the image on the eventbrite is hers, too!
Erika Chambers She's a decorator, a seamstress of SCA garb, an artist who works in mixed media, oil watercolor, etc.,... a Jill-of-all-Trades. For the November 2nd Show, she's bringing some of her paintings, which
are generally of "old buildings and scenery, or pretty much anything slightly morbid." She'll also bring her set-up, and paint right along with us throughout the evening! She didn't have any photos of her work, so we get to be surprised!
Reid Rowlands:
Reid Rowlands is a local woodworking artist, living in Newark, DE most of his life. Woodworking is his creative outlet, and, says Reid, "has the added benefit of being therapeutic. Making saw dust is a great stress reliever from a hard day."
In the last five years his passion for woodworking has transformed from relaxing hobby into his career. Reid believes in sustainable construction processes and materials. He up-cycled a 200 year old barn into his current residence. "Lots of woodworking in that project, with lots of material left over to use for woodworking projects," he says. As such, Reid works almost exclusively in reclaimed and sustainable materials. He made this card holder for the THINGS MADE show:
"Sides are salvaged Brazilian Cherry and the black center is left over from a kitchen counter top we fabricated using Richlite, which is recycled paper countertop material." You can see more of his work and read his blog on environmental building at http://www.worldclasssupply.com/
Come and meet Reid and have a conversation on November 2nd.
See you then,
~Jessi