What is a makerspace, and what goes on there? Join us on Wednesday, October 22 starting at 7:30pm at No Name Bar to learn about makers in the region and the efforts to create Winona Creators Collective. Come learn what a makerspace is and what ours will be like. Then hear three awesome “makers” get nerdy about their passions.
Talk #1: “3D Printing: How to spend the most time possible to make things the easy way!” by Eric Kerr-Anderson
Are you interested in learning more about 3D printing? We will pull back the curtain and look at the often not talked about challenges in getting started “making” with a 3D printer
Eric is a CME professor at Winona State University with wealth of experiences with 3D printing! In recent years he support WSU students in using 3D printers to design and build cars powered by rat-traps!
Talk #2: “Ceramics = Clay + Fire” by Anne Plummer
What can a shared ceramics studio look like? What happens there? Possibilities are endless, and we’ll explore what we might expect, soon and later.
Anne Scott Plummer is a retired WSU Art Professor, specializing in ceramics and sculpture. She now has a private studio “Island City Clayspace” where she produces pottery and sculpture, and conducts workshops.
Talk #3: “For Gourd and Country: How gourds are gonna save the world” by Rachel Pauli
Gourds have been a part of human history since humanities inception, they are ingrained in us and unite us in a way few things in existence can. Come learn about this absolutely amazing and under appreciated plant, its uses, impact and how the humble gourd will save the world.
Rach Pauli is an award winning local gourd artist that grows her own gourds right here in her backyard in Winona. She painted her first gourd at the tender age of 35 and has been “making” with gourds ever since.