“The Kaleidoscope… is an instrument for creating and exhibiting an infinite variety of beautiful forms… to please the eye by an ever-varying succession of splendid tints and symmetrical…
A cardboard box full of old enameling supplies, spotted at a thrift sale and bought for a song, was the impetus for my most recent maker experience. And…
Woodturners love to joke about making shavings—as if the objective of turning wood is to slice off thin slivers of wood rather than to create beautiful objects. The…
Over half the students introduced themselves with doubts over their ability to make the charming needle felted characters on display. Yet, everyone completed multiple projects and left the…
In August 1926, Olive D. Campbell, co-founder of the John C Campbell Folk School, wrote “If you could see our neighbors busily at work about the place, you…