Handshouse Studio Toys for Animals participants are delivering a newly designed set of toys for beloved elephants, Ruth and Emily, tomorrow! We are marking the 14th anniversary of this remarkable collaboration and want to share it with the community!
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Handshouse Studio brought its Notre-Dame Project to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in September and October, 2022. Project representatives return to Athens, GA for another five-day workshop and a February 9 open studio and panel conversation.
The Gift of Repair
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Lamar Dodd School of Art invited Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project back to Athens,GA to offer a five-day workshop to continue the 1:10 scale white-oak model recreating one of the oldest sections of Notre-Dame de Paris timber roof.
Read MoreWE RAISED OUR REPLICA FOR THE CHIEF RESTORATION ARCHITECTS FROM FRANCE!
Philippe Villeneuve and Remi Fromont, Chief Architects of the Notre-Dame de Paris reconstruction in Paris greeting Rick Brown Co-Founder of Handshouse Studio in front of the full-scale replica of a Notre-Dame de Paris wooden roof truss reconstructed by Handshouse Studio participants using Fromonts hand-drawings of the cathedral’s medieval timber roof structure.
Read MoreWhen the OBJECT we study is Handshouse: The Pedagogy Project
Handshouse Studio has been exploring ways to bring our unique project-based pedagogy to more learners. In July, Art Education faculty, Adriana Katzew, invited Handshouse to be a case subject for her intensive Creating Curriculum summer course at Mass College of Art and Design.
Read MoreHands-On(line)
Throughout the summer, we have been talking with teachers, educators, advisors about what we learned from our Toys for Monkeys and Trojan Horse remote projects. We are exploring the prospect of bringing this project to other institutions, as well as to other age groups of students in partnership with school teachers.
Read MoreMeditations on the Gourd Banjo Project
This week, we decided to reach out to our past Banjo Project participants to have them remind us how this project impacted them, to rejuvenate our resolve, to help us regroup the many past participants, to invite in future banjo makers, and to begin to explore safe ways to continue the project in the strange new world of COVID 19.
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Mae Kam and Mae Dok strolling past the Toys for Elephants group doing their daily foraging in the natural hills and streams near their home at BEES Elephant Sanctuary.
Toys for Elephants: Thailand 2020
Handshouse Studio traveled with the Toys for Elephants project to Thailand again! A group of 15 people from 5 different colleges from the US and England, traveled together to Thailand this past January to design and build both enrichment objects for Elephants, and tools for elephant keepers to improve life for elephants at BEES Elephant Sanctuary. (continue)
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