WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGES
Hands-on creative practice making abstract compositions using 3D materials for children and adults
For Kids
Hacker Creations workshops give kids a chance to make a 3D abstract work of art that combines a collage made from recycled paper with computer parts! The project relies on good observation skills, imagination and experimentation. Children are shown ways to use layering to make an exciting, eye-popping creation! The disassembled technology provided, offers a wild variety of materials and fascinating shapes!
Kids become familiar with the workings of computers by seeing what is inside. All the parts have been chosen with children in mind and are made from plastic, rubber and metal.
Safety: In youth classes, no parts are cut. The metal and plastic have been sorted and judged to be safe. I bring no capacitors, diodes, transistors, resisters, or anything that contains harmful chemicals. But one should always wash their hands after handling e-waste!
For Adults
This is a whole new way to look at technology in a world overrun with electronics waste.
Join assemblage artist, Melissa Glick in making bold, colorful collage using disassembled computer components and recycled paper.
Learn techniques for attaching parts over a layer of collage, to create abstract compositions that explore shape, perspective, pattern & positive/negative space.
Discover the beauty of deconstructed technology that recalls the sculpture of Modernist movements, Geometrical Abstraction, Bauhaus, DeStijl, Cubism and the work of artists such as Louis Nevelson, Malevich & Calder.
Advanced classes include using shears to cut parts and a variety of methods for attaching computer parts to wood including, drilling holes and using wire, screws, glue gun. silicon and epoxy.
MARKETS
2024
Makers Market, Artisans Asylum, April 27, Allston, MA
SomerNightStudio, SOS Afterparty, Saturday May4th 6-11 pm, Somerville, MA
14th Annual Dance For World Community Festival, Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA.
2023
Temple B’nai Brith Dec 3 201Central Ave, Somerville, 1-5 pm
Inman Holiday Market Dec 17 11 am - 5 pm Multiple locations in Inman Sq, Cambridge, MA
2022
Charles River Speedway, Nov 26, Noon-6pm 525 Western Ave, Brighton
Artisan's Asylum, Grand Opening: Makers Market, Dec 3, 1pm- 5 pm 95 Holton St, Allston
Inman Square Holiday Show, Dec 18th Cambridge
The Byte Shop, 48 South St, JP 6/8/22 - ongoing
Somerville Open Studios at Arts at the Armory, April 30 & May 1
Inman Incubator 1385 Cambridge St,May 7 - June 7
2021
Winter Market Allston-Brighton Nov 15-Jan 15 on line
Allston Speedway Holiday Sale Nov 27Eats & Crafts Inman Square August 1, Cambridge
Somerville Open Studios
2020
Jewelry City Virtual Open Studios
Steampunk Festival
Mass Art Holiday Market
2019
Buzz Market, Once
Cambridge Open Studios
Somerville Open Studios
Maker Day, Children’s Museum,
Rhody Crafts, Pawtucket, RI
Google’s Holiday Show
Smith Center Holiday Show, Cambridge Arts Council
Culture House Holiday Show Cambridge Arts Council Boston Hassle, Cambridge Community Center
Artisan’s Asylum Holiday Market
2018
Open Market, East Boston
8 Byte Bazaar, Providence, RI
Boston Hassle Cambridge Community Center
Argenziano Holiday Craft Fair
Women’s Market Pop Up, Bow Market
Google Holiday Show
Porter Square Pop Up
Somerville Open Studios
2017
Open Market, Central Sq
Arisia
Artisan’s Asylum Holiday Market
Fluff Festival
Jamaica Plain Holiday Craft Show
MIT Winter Craft Fair,
Somerville High School Craft Show
Somerville Local Arts Mall, Union Sq
Temple Con, Warwick, RI
Trash Bash, Aeronaut Somerville,MA
Craftershock, Worcester Roller Derby
Cambridge Community Art Share, Kendal Sq
Cambridge Open Studios
Davis Flea Night Market, Union Sq
Holiday Show Cambridge Corporate Park
Mass Art Holiday Show
2016
Argenziano Holiday Craft Fair
Davis Flea
Jamaica Plain Holiday Craft Show
Trash Bash
ReUse, Convex
Cambridge River Festival
Artisan’s Asylum Holiday Market
Somerville Open Studios
Crafters Carnivale, Mass Art
First Friday, Jamaica Plain
Mass Art Holiday Show
2015
Jamaica Plain Holiday Craft Show
Loops, Southampton, MA
Crafters Something, Mass Art
Temple Con, Warwick, RI
Union Square Craft Show
Somerville Open Studios
BUST, Boston Center for Adult Ed
Artisan’s Asylum Holiday Market
2014
Artopia, Boston
Summer Streets, Davis Sq
Boston Etsy Makers, Watertown Mall
Fluff Fest, Union Sq
Union Square Market
Start on the Street, Worcester
MIT Flea
Somerville Open Studios
Craftershock, Worcester Roller Derby
2013
Trash Bash, Arsenal Art Center
Craftbash, Pawtucket, RI
Somerville Open Studios
2012
Somerville Open Studios
Arisia
Summer Streets, Union Sq
