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Featuring artists in their studios, working in a variety of art forms to include ceramics, fiber arts, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture, woodwork and more. Artists will have art for sale and studios open for visitors.
Curated spaces w/ Evanston Made artists:We partner with local businesses and alternate spaces to provide a showcase for our artist members. Work changes monthly. Watch our calendar for events and artist recptions!
"I've lived in and around Evanston most of my life. I'm amazed at how organized and dedicated you guys are. Just felt like I needed to support. Art is my spiritual practice and you're growing something." -Donor
Made Studio was founded in Valencia in 2017 by the architects Borja Garca and Laura Ros. Focused on the development of architecture, commercial interior design and product design projects, the studio combines professionals from industrial design and architecture who join forces to offer panoramic vision on projects. The result is a long and contrasted experience with numerous national and international awards, such as the Red Dot Design Awards, the Delta Awards or the ADCV Awards, as well as a prolific activity in exhibitions and publications around the world. Made Studio expresses our passion for product design and architecture through work done with extreme care from concept to detail.
Paige McCafferty, a woodworker and owner of craft business Awkwood Things, became a member at MADE Studio in Sacramento as part of the MAKEHERS cohort in March 2023. McCafferty, who is also a young single mom, applied for the women-owned small business accelerator program after seeing her friend complete it and successfully scale up her business.
With the rebrand, it was important for Lujan to bring in accessible, easy-to-use studio equipment that appealed to makers like McCafferty, rather than the more industrial focus of the prior HackerLab space. The new equipment requires less time to learn, and some machines can be mastered quickly, rather than requiring several hours of training.
In the studio, members have access to 3D printers, laser cutters, several saws and a lathe, CNC engravers, jewelry-making tools, sublimation printers, sticker printers, embroidery and Cricut machines, banner printers, a product photography setup, podcast studio, workspace for electronics, and computers with software for editing and design. There are also central tables for co-working, 85 different classes a month, and the space hosts a comedy open mic on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
If you happened to be passing a small building on the corner of 21st and X streets, on November 1962, you may have heard the slow peck of a typewriter, or the chatter of a few dedicated individuals as they stuck stamps to the outside of an unusual 4-page newspaper.
Stephen Burks Man Made is a hands-on collaborative design studio deeply invested in the transformative power of craft techniques that challenge the limits of new technologies within industrial production.
Our solo exhibition Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place, formerly at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (September 16, 2022 - March 5, 2023) is part acclaimed mid-career survey and part commissioned speculative project presenting the last decade of professional practice alongside new expressions of radical domesticity through handcrafted industrial design.
Most recently, Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses opened at Volume Gallery in Chicago and Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place (November 19. 2023 - April 16, 2024) opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where Stephen became the first African American to receive the Collab Design Excellence Award.
Chicago native, Stephen Burks is an industrial designer, product development consultant, and educator whose innovative approach to design synthesizes craft, community, and industry. Independently and through association with various non-profits, he has collaborated with artisans and craftspeople in over ten countries on six continents. His socially engaged practice seeks to broaden the limits of design consciousness by challenging who benefits from and participates in contemporary design.
He has been visiting faculty and a strategic consultant to academic institutions around the globe and taught architecture and design at Berea College, Columbia University GSAPP, ECAL, the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Stephen is the only African-American to win the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Product Design and the only industrial designer to be awarded the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Before working at Stephen Burks Man Made, she worked with several startups helping them bring their products and services to the market, including smart home devices, smartwatches, smart jewelry, and 3D printers.
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