He was a musician who decided to build his own instrument from scratch. Almost three years, two mandolins, and a ShopBot CNC router later, he left Norfolk as a luthier. He's still building.

She started in the woodshop making tables. Four years later she's designing in Fusion 360, running a CNC router, and teaching others to feel the moment everything clicks into place.

Sarah from StudioShift called with two weeks to go. They selected an Artist, Aslan, with a design and booked a steamroller for the Chrysler Museum print event Inked. They just needed someone to carve it in reverse at scale. We said yes.

Twenty volunteers built a two-story art car for Burning Man in six months. Most had never welded before. They used 757 Makerspace's Open Studio Flex Space to learn steel and aluminum fabrication, taught by experienced makers who showed up to help. The result: a mobile suburban front porch that traveled cross-country to the Black Rock Desert for Burning Man.