. Here’s an easy one for your Friday. Click here to head to the Weston Art & Innovation Center survey where you can answer questions about what you like and want from the beautiful old library space that is now the Art & Innovation Center. I filled out my survey this morning and it took less than five minutes. Never
Read moreThe Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham is looking for help in identifying local immigrant innovators who might be candidates for a project they’re doing in collaboration with Waltham High School students called “Immigrant Innovators Among Us.” In a follow-up to last year’s Almost Forgotten Immigrant Inventors program, the Museum is again collaborating with the Changemaker Academy at Waltham High to highlight
Read moreHave you ever felt just a tiny bit stabby about something happening in your life? Have I ever got inexpensive therapy for you! Take a needle felting class at the Art & Innovation Center–and this month, the theme is an OWL!!! Not only that, but it is this Owl’s favorite of all owls, the Snowy Owl. The timing could not
Read moreOn Sunday, September 25 from 1 pm – 2:30 pm at Weston’s Art & Innovation Center, there is a wonderful class called “From Your Yard” about flower arranging for incredibly messy and chaotic gardeners. Oh wait, that was my interpretation because that is my garden. In fact, the best part of the upcoming “From Your Yard” class is that the
Read moreIf you have not subscribed to the newsletter from the Weston Art & Innovation Center, do so right now here. I’ll wait. Tick-tock, okay you’re back? I read the newsletter every time it arrives and try to imagine myself learning to sew or wading through my 16,000 digital photos and actually organizing them, or making a Viking Knit Chain (sorry
Read moreWhen the Owls moved from Illinois to New Jersey to Brazil to Miami to Brazil again and then Weston, we definitely had a changeover in our art. Tropical prints don’t so much cut it here, nor Maine landscapes in São Paulo, and so we moved our art there and then back, and some probably is still stuck in the Brazilian
Read moreAfter a summer hiatus (hibernation?). the second season of Through the Lens of Art and Innovation: Building Bridges at the Weston Art & Innovation Center starts tomorrow. This season, the series has an expanded title to include “innovation.” Last year’s series was focused on art…though arguably there is a little bit of both in each. According to the website, the AIC is
Read moreIf you’re an artist, student, or maker who is looking for some space to make your latest creative item, check out Weston Art & Innovation Center’s Maker Lab on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 am – 12 pm. Makers can work with any Art & Innovation Center equipment for which they have been certified, including the 3D printer, the
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