Maker Faire Syracuse 2025
Material Interactions & Little Free Fibrary
Home: New York, United States of America
Come make an interactive data-driven quilt! Learn more about quilting by sewing fabrics, colors and shapes to make a collaborative community quilt that represents Maker Faire.
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Makers
Rachel Ivy Clarke
After an early career in graphic design, Rachel Ivy Clarke turned to librarianship, which in turn led to her current role as an associate professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Her award-winning research focuses on the application of design methodologies and epistemologies to librarianship and beyond. Her current work combines her expertise in information studies, design, and textile arts to juxtapose typically feminine folk art traditions with theories and principles of data and classification in order to humanize clinical data, surface marginalized perspectives, and provoke viewers into seeing both textile arts and data in new ways. She earned a BA in creative writing from California State University Long Beach, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and a PhD from the University of Washington.
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Leah Dudak
Leah T. Dudak is Ph.D. student at the iSchool and a former librarian. Dudak’s research looks at public libraries and the trauma that library staff encounter giving attention to
