Handshouse Studio has been exploring ways to bring our unique project-based pedagogy to more learners. In July, Art Education faculty, Adriana Katzew, invited Handshouse to be a case subject for her intensive Creating Curriculum summer course at Mass College of Art and Design.
Read MoreMeditations on the Gourd Banjo Project
This week, we decided to reach out to our past Banjo Project participants to have them remind us how this project impacted them, to rejuvenate our resolve, to help us regroup the many past participants, to invite in future banjo makers, and to begin to explore safe ways to continue the project in the strange new world of COVID 19.
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Ailton Correia performing on his Berumbau at a Banjo Project immersive workshop at Handshouse Studio in Norwell, MA August 2018.
Honoring a Hero, Ailton (Nito) Correia
We have lost a hero. Ailton (Nito) Correia, a rising star in Industrial Design at Massachusetts College of Art, a central member of our Handshouse family, a Capoeira performer, a Cape Verdean-American from Amherst, MA, an artist and so many things, most important of which being a very, very dear friend to so many…
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Mini Banjo Workshop for High School Students
On Norwell Cares Day, September 20, 2019, Norwell high school students joined Handshouse Studio for a one-day workshop making historic gourd banjos.
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