Heartland Maker Fest 2017
Meet the Makers: Weiskamp
Want to learn how to make your own creative screen-printed designs. Well come get hands on with Weiskamp Screen Printing at the Maker Fest this year. They will be setting up a table to help you make your own...
Meet the Makers: Royel Bijou/Trashion Fashion
Royel Bijou/Trashion Fashion will be sharing her talents for turning recycled materials into new garments. She is working to bring awareness of recycling to the next level by making clothing and jewelry out of recycled materials. Join us for a fashion show and a table...
Meet the Makers: Origami by Xudong
Origami is not just "Crane". Inspired by the modern origami works seen online, Xudong started to fold origami in 2009. Xudong gained experience of folding by practice and designed his first origami model in 2012. In the...
Meet the Makers: CUDO Plays
CUDO Plays is an Illinois-local board game design competition hosted by the Champaign-Urbana Design Organization. We bring together gamers, makers, and designers help them turn their tabletop game ideas into reality! Every year since 2013, we’ve guided teams over the...
Meet the Makers: Forden Arts and Crafts
Pat is a local artist, who also create arts and crafts. She makes animals out of velvet, knit, and satin finish materials, and incorporates yarn into the creation. She designed the patterns for most of my animals. Pat began making horses, expanded to buffalo,...
Meet the Makers: Makerspace Urbana
Makerspace Urbana, a working group of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, is dedicated to enabling the blend of arts, humanities, science and technology. Our mission is to provide an open community lab where people of diverse backgrounds can learn, teach,...
Meet the Makers: CU Community Fab Lab
The Champaign Urbana Community Fab Lab has truly become a staple of the DIY/Maker community in Champaign-Urbana and they are returning to the Heartland Maker Fest to show off all they have to offer. Be sure to stop, say hi, and get hands on with some of...
Meet the Makers: Central Illinois Aerospace
We are happy to announce that the Central Illinois Aerospace rocketry club will again be joining the Heartland Maker Fest this year. They will be showing rockets, videos, and other rocket equipment the club has built (i.e. launch pads and a launching systems...
Meet the Makers: Mike Bohlmann – protomaker.io
Ever since Mike bought an Arduino starter kit in late 2015, he's been making prototypes and other small projects. His primary maker areas focus on 3D printing, electronics, and video production. Sometimes these projects are just for fun, sometimes they are for...
Meet the Makers: Dank Beads
Dank Beads writes: "I like to make fun or silly crafts that make people happy. I make fashion and home accessories." Welcome to the Fest!
Meet the Maker: OumniPotent
We’re glad to welcome another returning maker to this year’s Heartland Maker Fest— OumniPotent! This informal community group promotes eco-friendly arts. They lead activities that are fun, creative, and functional. They would love for everyone to create a positive...
“Meet the Maker: Birdhouse Echo by Katrina Catizone”
We are happy to announce Birdhouse Echo by Katrina Catizone. This amazing talent is a full-time artist who specializes in hyper-realistic portraits and fan art. She is a self-taught oil painter, but has recently been creating photo-real charcoal drawings on toned...
Meet the Maker: Chrissy Hanula Ceramics
We're excited to welcome Chrissy Hanula Ceramics as a new maker this year!
Meet the Maker: PaleGray Labs
Welcome to PaleGray Labs! PaleGray Labs is a textile collaboration of Theodore Gray and Nina Paley. We stitch science, math and art themed quilts on our commercial grade robotic stitch plotter. Putting the NERD in quiltiNg and EmbRoiDery.
Meet the Makers: Think. Love. Live.
Think. Love. Live. is about reimagining relationships and cultivating connection, with ourselves, others, and nature. It is my outlet to share photography, favorite quotes, and more recently, empowering and feminist clothing. My goal is to spread the message of...
Meet the Makers: Self Care Community Repair Collective
2017 is bringing many new makers to the Heartland Maker Fest. We're happy to welcome Self Care Community Repair Collective, whose healing-centered collective aims to promote well-being for individuals and our community as a whole. Their aim is to provide a safe space...
Meet the Makers: Autistic Rabbit Weighted Blankets
Autistic Rabbit Weighted Blankets provides high quality weighted blankets to those who need them most. These blankets are great for anyone with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, Insomnia, Restless Leg Syndrome, Anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, or anyone who likes Pressure...
Meet the Makers: ShopStop Jewelry and Textiles
We're glad to welcome a new maker to this year's Heartland Maker Fest—ShopStop Jewelry and Textiles's unique hand-crafted jewelry and hand-dyed textiles!
Meet the Makers: Ctrl-Z
We are excited to have Ctrl-Z back at the Fest after a few years absence! Team 4096, Ctrl-Z, is a growing FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team from Champaign County in Illinois. Founded in 2011 by passionate students, parent and college mentors. Students come from 9...
Meet the Makers: Evelyne’s Intentions
Evelyne's art spans a variety of materials, methods, and subject matter, but all have the common element of intention. Her work seeks to create beauty and inspire through color, symbolism, and style. She has found mandalas to be a strong tool for meditation and use...
Meet the Makers: Caroline Campbell
We are thrilled to have one of our youngest makers to date return! Caroline embodies the spirit and heart of a true maker - using found objects, things around the house, or resources from the I.D.E.A Store. This year she will be building structures with PVC piping...
Meet the Makers: Epyon5
Epyon5 is a full time artist who resides in central Illinois. Although originally an oil painter trained in the fine art of renaissance style realism, his focus has shifted to a more contemporary style of stencils and spray paint while combining elements of old world...
Meet the Makers: Dot Dot Dot T-Shirts
Eco-friendly fashion from Dot Dot Dot T-Shirts! Dot Dot Dot reuses and up-cycles thrift or donated cotton clothing (Mostly Knit) and yard goods and remakes them into Braided and/or Tie dyed...
Meet the Makers: Crass Stitching
Crass Sticking is needlework for terrible people made right here in Urbana, IL! Pop culture, rude, vintage patterns with a modern twist. Embroidery like Grandma used to make (if Grandma was drunk on whiskey). Crass Stitching takes a traditional hobby and brings it...
Meet the Makers: Central Illinois Puppetry Guild
The Central Illinois Puppetry Guild provides a caring community in which puppeteers are encouraged and supported in the development of their craft. They seek to provide a safe haven for the sharing of...
Meet the Makers: Skot Wiedmann
Skot Wiedmann creates beautiful and fun interactive electronics. This hands-on exhibit will let you experience the combination of art and technology. Touch a circuit to make music. Play with interactive lights. After a few years of teaching people to build the...
Meet the Makers: Vinny Santanelli Music
We are welcoming Vinny Santanelli back to our stage for Heartland Maker Fest 2017! Vinny is a folk ‘n blues artist who combines harmonica, acoustic guitar and vocals in an altogether unique and unforgettable way. Having been influenced by American folk, Latin jazz,...
Meet the Makers: Illinois MakerLab
The Illinois MakerLab is the world’s first Business School 3D Printing Lab. We are very proud to have them back again at the Heartland Maker Fest. Join us to learn how to turn objects into ideas, with 3D...
Meet the Makers: Teen Open Lab @ The Urbana Free Library
The Lewis Auditorium at The Urbana Free Library becomes the Teen Open Lab most Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons. 3D printing, music making and recording, reading, drawing, crafting, film-making, gaming, or just hanging out--the Teen Open Lab has something...
Meet the Makers: Fresh Press
Fresh Press hand makes small batches of artisan sustainable agri-fiber papers made from locally sourced harvest waste from the Illinois Sustainable Student Farm. This always unique agri-fiber paper can be used for stationary, resumés, or to create your next...
Heartland Maker Fest 2017 is Almost Here!
Heartland Maker Fest 2017 October 14, 2017 | 9AM-2PM Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana HMF is almost here! Makerspace Urbana is thrilled to announce our annual Heartland Maker Fest! On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at Lincoln...
Meet the Makers: Moldover
New to our stage this year is Matt Moldover! Moldover designs and builds his own electronic performance instruments, the instruments built into his album packaging, and many other crazy gadgets! In his words: If technology and music are your life, brace yourself-...