Monthly Archives: August 2012

8/30 Open Meeting Wrap-up

Great meeting yesterday!

NEWS: We have extended the Call for Makers and are still taking requests for tables through September 9th. If we fill up we will put people at the top of the list for next year. We have room for more poets or musicians/bands on the Main Stage and have a few remaining spaces for food trucks. Contact us for more info.

SIGN NIGHT part III

WHEN: This Sunday, 10:00AM                                                                                      WHERE: We will be meeting at Quelab                                                 WHAT: Painting and fun, the more painters the merrier! Meet-up at 10am, get organized and start painting signs! We will need people to come help out with this event so call your friends and invite people to attend.  Snacks will be provided.

Please fill out our Maker-In-Training Questionnaire if you haven’t already and get on the Volunteer list!

QueLab

1112 2nd St. NW (map)
Albuquerque, NM 87102

 

Please contact me if you can donate or bring/loan any items to this Sunday’s sign meet-up.

Donation/Material Needs:

  • PAINT!!-Latex or Acrylic (Used/New)
  • Brushes
  • ANY COLOR-Spray Paint
  • People!

Thanks to everyone that came yesterday to help cut stencils and prep canvasses; Thanks Suzanne, Wayne, Jimena, Craig, Ricky, Clint, John C., Tara, Holly, & everyone else who’s handwriting I can’t read! If I’m forgetting you let me know!

We’ll see you Sunday!

 

Maker Profile: Recycle Everything!

Recycle Everything with Joy Raab-Faber

Recycling Everything

Plant hanger with flowers, made from recycled baling twine

Copy, beg, collect, save up, swap and recycle everything! I look for the shortest most direct path to recycling everything from paper to tractor parts. I want my work to demonstrate that recycling is easy, fun, sometimes profitable, always entertaining and leaves you with a big smile! Recycling is also an excellent vehicle for networking and learning new skills.

I work hard to invest my work with simple human power and to recycle using less energy than it takes to make the objects in the first place, non-toxic glue and paints and durable finishes when required.                               ~Joy Raab-Faber

Hands-on activities all day long!

Maker Profile: ABQZineFest

ABQ ZineFest

ZineFest

ABQ Zine Fest presents HOW-TO make an 8 page Mini Zine from one sheet of 8 x 11 paper! We’ll write, draw, collage, layout and ready our zines for printing!  Learn about the rich history zines (starting with Benjamin Franklin) and D.I.Y. publishing! Try your hand at telling a BIG story on a TINY surface! Fun for the whole family.

Go to this year’s ZineFest in October! More on their website: http://abqzinefest.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ABQZineFest