by Gergana Slavova | Sep 26, 2016 | Maker 2016, Maker Fest 2016 |
We’ve very excited to welcome a new type of maker this year! Shoshanna Bauer (Shoshie to her gaming friends) paints custom painted miniatures for gaming and collecting. She is a traditionally-trained Fine Art Watercolorist who recently switch to painting...
by Andew Hettinger | Sep 25, 2016 | Maker 2016, Maker Fest 2016 |
The Central Illinois Puppetry Guild is made up of individual artists who create and perform with puppets of all kinds: traditional hand puppets, shadow puppets, marionettes, and many others. While each guild member performs professionally and independently, they also...
by Jeff Putney | Sep 25, 2016 | Maker 2016, Maker Fest 2016 |
Another addition to our new line up of local performers this year, we’re excited to have Vinny Santanelli playing at Heartland Maker Fest! Vinny is originally from the East coast, but now makes his home in the Midwest where he receives a lot of his musical...
by Jeff Putney | Sep 25, 2016 | Maker 2016, Maker Fest 2016 |
Last year Caroline amazed everyone with her one-of-a-kind dolls and doll houses crafted out of found objects, things around the house, or resources from the I.D.E.A Store. And her contagious maker spirit had attendees constructing their own recycled creations with her...
by Jeff Putney | Sep 25, 2016 | Maker 2016, Maker Fest 2016 |
ScratchBuilds is back! At last year’s Maker Fest we learned what a wonderful local resource they are for helping you enter the world of First Person View (FPV) Racing Quadcopters. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s really exciting stuff!...
by Emily Knox | Sep 25, 2016 | Maker 2016, Maker Fest 2016 |
Maddy MotzArt (Madalyn Davidson) is one of our new makers this year. She writes: I have been painting all my life starting out in watercolors and acrylics. When I was younger my father would bring a dollar store set of watercolors on vacation in Michigan and Florida...
