Teaching Ms. Parker’s 6th grade class was absolutely wonderful and also a great…
On the last day of our 2D/3D camp we introduce our glue gun activity, which is an interpretation of manual 3D printing. Earlier in the week the students learned how to create shapes and objects using Tinkercad. We brought in our Makerbot 3D printer to show the class how the objects…
This week at University Settlement we challenged the group to create homopolar motors. Created in 1821, a homopolar motor is the simplest type of motor powered by electricity from a battery. The components of a homopolar motor are a AA battery…
This semester I had the opportunity to revisit the cloud project that fellow Artist-Educator Ainsley Buckner and I piloted last year. The LED cloud residencies have been one of our most successful projects. In fact, the cloud project has been so successful that Progressive Arts Alliance…
The term “Magic Hands” refers to the use of human intervention in order to make the Kinetic Sculpture work completely. With such a tight deadline and such awesome and often lofty goals most projects in our Imagination and Innovation camps require the use of magic hands. This is…
The 4th grade students at Michael R. White STEM School in Cleveland, Ohio completed their land form low-relief sculpture games before the 2014 winter break. The last blog post about this program explains how the students drew topographic maps, cut them apart and used the pieces as stencils…
During the fall semester, with the 1st grade class at the Michael R. White School, we took advantage of our proximity to the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to explore how landscape designers shape our experience of the natural world in conjunction with students’ learning about the basic needs of…
Jared Akerstrom, Ainsley Buckner, and I recently completed the installation of a large wall sculpture in the…
![Triangles that were laser cut at [think]box at Case Western Reserve University. Photo by Jared Akerstrom.](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/640/0*-FCoB6SFdnZrpCLR.jpg)