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Maker Faire Austin 2008
Future Craft Collective
We at the Future Craft Collective are striving to shift a paradigm for kids by teaching them the beauty of not just making it themselves, but making it with what's around them, thereby creating their own unique style. One way that avoids the "aw, mom" reaction that often accompanies a good old fashioned lecture on downstream impact is getting kids out of the "buy a kit at hobby lobby and assemble" mode and back into the "scrape, scrounge, dig, build, create" mode that comes with salvaging and upcycling. The fact that it's environmentally friendly can be almost secondary to the sheer creative challenge of dissecting your raw materials and deconstructing the stuff around you that otherwise might head to the landfill. Plus it's fun and it looks good.
Web site: http://www.futurecraftcollective.com
About the Maker(s)
Kathie Sever and Bernadette Noll are writers, sewers, mothers, thrifters, artists, and teachers. Their goal is to nurture a love of handmade in children by showing them the beauty of "thanks, I made it myself". They aim to encourage people to tread lightly on this earth by injecting new life into old materials and at the same time making some really cool stuff.
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