This week, we decided to reach out to our past Banjo Project participants to have them remind us how this project impacted them, to rejuvenate our resolve, to help us regroup the many past participants, to invite in future banjo makers, and to begin to explore safe ways to continue the project in the strange new world of COVID 19.
Read MoreHands of Handshouse: Krista Lima
Over the past several months we have been working to develop curricula to help spread the stories rediscovered through our Handshouse projects to a broader audience. We have had the pleasure of working with a dedicated team to start this process, one of whom is our long time Handshouse family member, Krista Lima!
Read MoreStacked paper ‘sections’ to become the layers of Olivia Witkor’s Trojan Horse model
Building the Trojan Horse at Home
Check out some of the models made by student Olivia Wiktor of the Trojan Horse, part of the Making/History: Trojan Horse Project. Originally the class goal was to continue research done in past workshops and classes by extensively studying the form of the horse, and creating several versions as 4-foot models made of wood. When the class had to move online, the project had to be adapted. Olivia, an Architecture student at Mass College of Art, was able to alter the classes CAD drawings of the Trojan Horse model, & using her Rhino skills, scale them to a few different sizes so fellow students could create layered horse models with the kinds of materials they could work with from their own homes.
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