Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Whip City Ceramics

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Grace Morrill

Home: Massachusetts, United States

I'm a local ceramic artist making decorative yet functional pottery.

Halloween/ art masks

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Dan Manson

Home: Massachusetts, United States

I make a new and unique kind of Halloween mask- a mask that has full and unobstructed vision- you can see everything yet you can’t be seen, or can you?- a mask that comfortable to wear and easy to breathe - each mask has hand painted creatures/characters/ monsters/ and whatz itz ?? You won’t see the old familiar Halloween characters with my masks - no vampires, clowns, skulls and such - instead people will wonder… what are you ? Creepy, weird, and confusing and without a doubt… FUN !

Playful Engineers: Artful Mechanisms

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Jay Mankita

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Playful Engineers teaching artist Jay Mankita presents a hands-on, drop-in, low-tech, toy-making workshop. Construct your own 'artful mechanism' using popsicle stick linkages, and paper clip crankshafts. You'll build a basic mechanical structure, overlaying your own design as the output to send a message, tell a story, accomplish a task, or bring a character to life. Your design needs may lead you back to modifications of the your mechanism. We'll make ordinary stuff act in extraordinary ways - great for kids, teens, and adults of all ages. Make a quick project, or stay the whole day!

Haala’s Jewelry & Art

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Haala C

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Haala's Jewelry & Art is a small business owned by a teenager in Springfield, MA. I specialize in creating handmade jewelry and original paintings inspired by nature. The jewelry is made with various materials, including glass, metal, wood, and acrylic beads. The paintings are created with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paint and are all unique.

pdmcbride.com chandeliers and lamps

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Dave McBride

Home: Massachusetts, United States

I make chandeliers, lamps and other unusual lighting objects using metal, wood and resin. Many of the materials I use are discarded or used and I find repurposing shapes and objects into new uses to be great fun for me and to viewers. Persistent ideas that I work with are histories of objects and continuance of space through representations of separation and the impermanence of things. I especially like the challenges and new ideas that unknown flaws of used or recycled parts bring to the work, as these require creative solutions that only seem to come up when I think I have failed.

The Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: The Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College

Home: Massachusetts, United States

See What Smithies Are Making and Create Your Own Designs. Students from The Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College, a historically women's college, will showcase the projects they create in our prototyping studios and facilitate an opportunity for hands on making.

Aquabots FTC

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Aquabots FTC

Home: Massachusetts, United States

We're the Aquabots, an FTC team! We are a community team made of members from all over the Pioneer Valley. We build a robot to compete in a worldwide competition. Building a robot requires mechanical design, programming, fundraising, and business planning. At Maker Faire you can checkout our robot, drive it around, and learn more about the current season we are competing in.

CT River Valley Precious Plastics

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: CT River Valley Precious Plastics

Home: Massachusetts, United States

The Connecticut River Valley Precious Plastic Community is a collective group of design labs and colleges around the Valley determined to change how we have conversations around plastic in our local communities. We are passionate about using open-sourced machines for plastic upcycling purposes. Currently, we are working to recycle PLA plastic from 3D printers to turn it back into usable 3D printer filament. Come see our shredder and extruder machines in action!

Cabrera Customs and more

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Maribell Cabrera

Home: Massachusetts, United States

ropa de bebe y productos personalizados

Jack O’ Lantern Carving

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Dan Manson

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Jack O' Lanterns are a fall tradition for makers of all ages. Carve a pumpkin with us at Maker Faire and it'll be part of the evening display along the Race Street canal.

Ws forever jewelry

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Dalana Cormier

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Ws forever jewelry makes customized clasp less jewelry for you. We also do fairy hair and braids as well as chain mail.

Sopris Pottery

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Sarah Miller

Home: Massachusetts, United States

I am an independent potter based in Northampton at the Smith College Ceramics studio. My pottery style reflects my experience growing up and learning wheel-throwing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. I will be exhibiting and selling decorative and functional vessels at the Maker Faire such as teapots, bowls, and vases.

LaunchSpace, Inc

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: LaunchSpace, Inc

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Come visit LaunchSpace at the Pioneer Valley Maker Faire! We'll be bringing our best makerminds to show off what's happening at our 13000 sq foot state-of-the art makerspace in Orange Ma. Get an up close look at a hand built kayak, vibe with our synth machine. battle it out in our 'bot arena or have your picture taken in our photobooth and make it into a one of a kind button. There is something for everyone at LaunchSpace!

AlexusCreativeSpark

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Alexus Derosier

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Im an artist who works in chibi art and anime primarily but loves to explore all my options. Just recently my newest obsession has been making plushies and dolls by crocheting. Im also a LGBTQ ally and love to include some colors or support the community when i can

ParKit: Pedaling Parks to People

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Smith College Landscape Studies ParKit Team

Home: Massachusetts, United States

The ParKit, a park-making kit, makes small temporary parks mobile. The main objective is to enact short-term, low-stakes simulations of potential permanent park installations, servicing the wants and needs of multiple publics. Designed to be ridden around a city and quickly assembled, a bike pulls a trailer holding the necessary components for constructing a “parklet,” enabling previously unused spaces to become more inviting. Mobile in nature, our vision is to reach out to communities who are less likely to have the time, resources or political leverage to engage in community design.

Chainsaw Carving by Stonehedge Artisans

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Russell Jeffords

Home: Massachusetts, United States

We are a collective of New England Makers featuring three generations of artisans. Our artists use a multitude of media showcasing designs using wood, metal, glass, and stone. Our Stonehedge Artisans value sourcing local, supporting local, and raising up the next generation of Makers. At the Pioneer Valley Maker's Faire we will have live chainsaw carving throughout the day and have a hands-on table for youth to learn basic jewelry making skills.

DEEP OCEAN STUDY

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Smith College MIND Lab

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Our developmental cognitive neuroscience lab seeks to better understand how home environments influence the development of visual attention, executive functioning, and memory skills in early childhood by playing games while undergoing a safe brain imaging method. We examine how the home environment can impact this development in preschool and kindergarten children. We are currently recruiting four and five-year-old children to participate in our paid research study. We invite families looking to get involved in research to engage with our fun educational and interactive science activities!

Two Sister’s Creative Designs

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Two Sister's Creative Designs

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Two Sister's Creative Designs. We are just two sisters having fun with paint and resin! We not only challenge ourselves when making things, we also challenge the medium we are using. We love to paint with acrylics and making pet memorials for people that have lost a love one is very rewarding.

Creative Change Glass Creations

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Beth Montemagni

Home: Massachusetts, United States

I am a stained glass artist. I have been working with glass for over a decade. Working in my studio allows me to get lost in my passion to create unique pieces of art. I feel creativity is my serenity, a place to escape from my busy work week ,relax and rejuvenate . I have always been fascinated by color and texture. The combination of metal and glass and the way glass sparkles in the sunshine inspires me. I repurpose unique pieces of metal and wood to frame my glasswork. My style is strongly influenced by nature. My art consists of trees, dragonflies, flowers, ocean scenes, and sunshine.

Creative Robotics with Lego

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Joe Bacal

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Robotics can be exploratory, playful, creative, artistic, and open-ended. This is a workshop that is about using the basic elements of robotics to create new inventions, works-of-art, or whatchamacallits. Participants will dive right in in a hands-on fashion to learn some basic concepts in robotics including mechanical systems, inputs outputs, sensors and actuators. Then we'll get right to the fun of building and experimenting, and sharing our creations. We'll be using the Lego Mindstorms robotics platform. Registration required.

The Hive Makerspace

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: The Hive Makerspace

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Come learn about The Hive, a community workshop based in Greenfield. We will be sharing projects made in our space including machined metal, 3d printed plastics and composites, electronics and more. Our volunteers will be talking about the tools we have in our shop, discussing past and upcoming workshops and events.

Lucy Creations

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Luz Colon

Home: Massachusetts, United States

At Lucy Creations we focus on customizing your ideas and memories with the help of My best helper, my 10-year-old daughter. Glasses, clothing, car accessories, decals, key chains and more.

Twisted Creations

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Kevin Boyd

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Twisted Creations is a small ever-evolving jewelry, art and lifestyle business. Specializing in handmade truly one of a kind pendants, pins, art and more. Whenever possible I incorporate real elements found within nature in my works. Inspired by the weird, the simple, the natural and the unnatural you will surely find something you never knew existed.

DG Customs

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Diomaris Gomez

Home: Massachusetts, United States

DG Customs is a small home business located in Springfield MA. The business focuses on products items made at home not outsourced such as stickers, nail stickers, tumblers, t-shirts, keychains, resin craft items and more. Owner Dio Gomez can custom items like labels, business cards or create a logo to give an identity to you business. Her booth will have her products that she created at her home. She will have things showcasing her Puertorican roots and her love for art and graphic design. Don't forget to visit DG Customs.

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