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In the Making: Grab a Chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtpGxcyGTWQ “A chair is considered to be one of the first pieces of furniture. If you think about it, the moment we became bi-pedal, we had to sit somewhere.” –...
In the Making: Thinking with Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15SC1caojjE “There’s a myth that learning only takes place within our heads. We know now that we think with our hands—and entire bodies—as we explore the world.” On Thursday, November...
In the Making: Boston Design Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrWkfQz4iI “Our training requires an amount of hand skills, and an amount of problem solving. Those are the threads that run across every full-time program and continuing education, and are...
In the Making: Stephen Hamilton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJB5Wa48TE “My work can’t be separated from craft. Because every time I’m weaving, every time I’m carving, every time I’m dyeing things, it is an act of reclamation of ancestral...
Lecture: BA Harrington CF ’95
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDAAE4nwsk “Something I find thrilling about making art and putting it out there in the world is the connection I get to make with other people. People here—but also people...
Make a Petal Fold Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6IWrxj5k0A Learn how to make a petal fold book or a petal book with NBSS middle school and Continuing Education instructors Colin Urbina BB ’11 and Erin Fletcher BB ’12....
Make a Recycled Cardboard Flower Sculpture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoaPY351Pc Learn how to construct a beautiful flower sculpture to hang on your wall, using recycled cardboard! Follow along with step-by-step instructions in the video above with NBSS Middle School...
In the Making: PilgrimWaters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDWueemYGiI “The Nepalese manufacturers we work with who are responsible for printing, they’re experts in their own field. … These aren’t machine processed materials, these are all lovingly crafted by...
In the Making: Slöyd Experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tCqJ-SvfAU “The hands-on, authentic, real experience of doing is one of our core beliefs… Our children, our future generations need more opportunities to make things, because they’re so capable of...
In the Making: Prison Outreach Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m71KeIc-O1U “We know that giving women education reduces recidivism. We also know that women come to incarceration with so many needs… We as woodworkers can’t take on all those needs,...