A Cotton Top Tamarin at the Franklin Park Zoo finds meal worms in a toy created by students from Norwell High School
This spring, Handshouse Studio is excited to bring Toys for Monkeys to a new age group of participants as we connect with students and educators, thanks to the support of two Mass Cultural Council STARS Residency Grants
Read MoreWith the support of a Mass Humanities Digital Capacity Grant, Handshouse Studio will create a website to house the Gwoździec Synagogue Project Interactive Archive/ Virtual Tour.
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It is with such a heavy heart that we share that our host, guide, guardian, visionary, activist, artist, and very dear friend, Shukit Panmongkol has passed away. Shukit Panmongkol brought Thailand to life for us and for all the students who traveled with Handshouse to Thailand…
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Rick and Laura Brown, listening to Maria Piechotka at the final installation of the Gwozdziec Synagogue Project recontronstructed for the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland.
With heavy hearts, Rick and I, and Handshouse Studio wish to honor the lives of Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka. Maria Piechotka recently passed on Nov 28, 2020 and her husband Kazimierz passed in 2010. The Handshouse Studio’s Gwozdziec Synagogue reconstruction for the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was possible because of their work and research.
Read MoreFor the first time since Handshouse was officiated as a non-profit in 2002, we are expanding our Board of Directors and employing a year-round staff member. In July of 2020, the Founding Board Members Rick and Laura Brown, Joel McCarty, and Cary Wolinksy formally hired Marie Brown to assume the role of Handshouse Studio’s first Executive Director.
Read MoreHandshouse 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 MoreThroughout the summer, we have been talking with teachers, educators, advisors about what we learned from our Toys for Monkeys and Trojan Horse remote projects. We are exploring the prospect of bringing this project to other institutions, as well as to other age groups of students in partnership with school teachers.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreOver the past several months we have been working to develop curricula to help spread the stories rediscovered through our Handshouse projects to a broader audience. We have had the pleasure of working with a dedicated team to start this process, one of whom is our long time Handshouse family member, Krista Lima!
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Ailton Correia performing on his Berumbau at a Banjo Project immersive workshop at Handshouse Studio in Norwell, MA August 2018.
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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