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IAP 2018 Activities by Category - Crafts, Hobbies, and Do-It-Yourself

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Antique Maps

Carol Spack MCP '81

Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 12:00PM-01:00PM 32-144

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

This class presents a display of original antique maps. There will also be a talk describing the variety of antique maps published in the 18th and 19th century such as pictorial maps, thematic maps, geographic maps and political maps. Question and answer as time permits. Focus is on how these maps bridge the past and present.

Carol J. Spack MCP '81 is an antique map collector and specialist. Her approach to antique maps includes an interest in land use and urban planning, art history and criticism, legal issues and cartography.

Register for this free event: http://alumic.mit.edu/antique_maps_2018

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Beekeeping 101

Tony Pulsone, Beekeeper

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

If you are thinking about becoming a beekeeper, there are many things to learn before embarking on this wonderful adventure. This course will provide you with a foundation to get started in this fascinating hobby and take you through your first year of beekeeping in the Northeast.

We will discuss honey bee biology and behavior, how to acquire your first bees, beekeeping equipment, how to conduct inspections, and seasonal management of your colonies. Beekeeping 101 is perfect for people who are interested in bees and beekeeping – this is the course that will help you decide whether beekeeping is right for you.

Tony Pulsone has been a local beekeeper for more than eight years. He is a second-generation beekeeper, a mentor to new beekeepers, a member of both the Middlesex County Beekeepers Association and the Eastern Apicultural Society. He is enrolled in the Cornell University Master Beekeeper Program and is currently studying for the Eastern Apicultural Society’s Master Beekeeper Certification. He maintains four hives 10 miles from campus.

Contact: Antonio Pulsone, 1-304, 617 253-2294, PULSONE@MIT.EDU


1. Introduction to Beekeeping

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 05:30PM-06:30PM 3-370

History of Beekeeping and its importance; Setting Expectations (trying to talk you out of beekeeping); Stings and Allergic Reactions (Management of Bee Allergies); Laws & Regulations, both State and Local


2. Honey Bees

Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 05:30PM-06:30PM 3-370

Occupants of the Hive and their Life Cycles; Site Considerations for your Apiary; Sourcing Bees (packages, nucs, and other ways to get bees)


3. Equipment

Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 05:30PM-06:30PM 3-370

Protective Clothing; Smoker (fuel, and how to light it, keeping it going); Hive Tools; Bee Hives (components and accessories); Miscellaneous Equipment (bear fencing, chest freezer, etc.)


4. Spring and Summer Management

Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 05:30PM-06:30PM 3-370

Installing Bees into your Hive(s); Feeding; How to properly inspect a hive; Swarming and Swarm Prevention; Winter Preparations


5.0 Diseases and Pests

Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 05:30PM-06:30PM 3-370

An unfortunate reality; How to deal with them


6. Fall and Winter Mgmnt. / Misc. Topics

Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 05:30PM-06:30PM 3-370

Preparing your hive(s) to overwinter; Products of the Hive; Planting for Bees


Beginning Oil Painting Workshop A

Nicole Tariverdian, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $105.00 for materials

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper

Over the course of this 4 week class, students will learn the beginning processes of creating an oil painting. Skills such as selecting successful imagery for a the canvas, determining aspects of a strong composition, underpainting, creating strong color palettes, and the basics of color mixing will be covered.

Week 1 - Image selection and composition creation

Week 2 - Underpainting

Week 3 - Palette set up and mixing color

Week 4 - Work session with guidance from instructor

Students should bring their own canvas (any shape/size, but no smaller than 14 X 14, please!) and a #2 pencil on the first day.  Other materials are supplied by the SAA.  Art supplies are available at Artist and Craftsman and Blick Art, both in Central Square, Cambridge.

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425

Nicole Tariverdian - Technical Instructor


Beginning Oil Painting Workshop B

Nicole Tariverdian, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $105.00 for materials

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper

Over the course of this 4 week class, students will learn the beginning processes of creating an oil painting. Skills such as selecting successful imagery for a the canvas, determining aspects of a strong composition, underpainting, creating strong color palettes, and the basics of color mixing will be covered.

Week 1 - Image selection and composition creation

Week 2 - Underpainting

Week 3 - Palette set up and mixing color

Week 4 - Work session with guidance from instructor

Students should bring their own canvas (any shape/size, but no smaller than 14 X 14, please!) and a #2 pencil on the first day.  Other materials are supplied by the SAA.  Art supplies are available at Artist and Craftsman and Blick Art, both in Central Square, Cambridge.

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-425

Nicole Tariverdian - Technical Instructor


Beginning Pottery Wheel

Darrell Finnegan, Studio Manager, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and firing fees.

This class will introduce you to the basics of wheel throwing, trimming and glazing your creation.  Learn the basic techniques that will allow you to confidently create on the potter’s wheel!

Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431

Darrell Finnegan - Studio Manager, Technical Instructor


Ceramic Pitchers

Darrell Finnegan, Studio Manager, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and firing fees.

In this intermediate and advanced level clay class, we will learn several pitcher forms during this focused four week workshop.  With an emphasis on handles and spouts, we will learn composition as well as the functionality of one of mankind's earliest functional forms.  With time permitting, several surface decorating techniques will also be introduced before bisque firing.

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 06:30PM-09:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 06:30PM-09:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 06:30PM-09:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 06:30PM-09:00PM W20-431

Darrell Finnegan - Studio Manager, Technical Instructor


Ceramica Botanica

Darrell Finnegan, Studio Manager, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and firing fees.

In this intermediate to advanced mixed level course, nature is a wonderful source of inspiration. Both wheel thrown and hand-built vessels will be stretched, altered and manipulated in various ways with a nature theme. Exploring numerous surface techniques, we will transform your vessel into a functional form or sculptural object. Think large leaf platters, perhaps plump peach pitchers or over-sized sculptural pears. This workshop will involve both wheel work and handbuilding techniques.

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431

Darrell Finnegan - Studio Manager, Technical Instructor


Cocktails 201: All for One and Punch for All

Jared Sadoian '10

Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM 500A Commonwealth Av

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: Participants must be 21 or older by 1/23/18 w/ a valid ID
Fee: $75.00 for supplies

Love cocktails but hate getting stuck behind your home bar when you have friends over? Punch to the rescue! Predating cocktails by over 150 years, punch found itself a reason to congregate, a way to share the wealth with others, as well as the center of community gossip. Today we celebrate this storied beverage as a tool for the home bartender to join in the revelry when you have guests over and not be tied to your shaker tins and mixing glasses.

Led by Bar Manager Jared Sadoian ‘10 and Head Bartender Rob Ficks, in this seminar you will discuss the ins and outs of a great punch, making five representative examples to taste and enjoy, as well as a short hands-on lesson on cutting ice for your punch bowl.

Register Today!

Please direct your questions to cocktailclass@thehawthornebar.com.

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Cocktails 201: DIY Bitters (for health and pleasure)

Jared Sadoian '10

Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM 500A Commonwealth Av

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: 21 or older by 1/30/18
Fee: $55.00 for for supplies

"I thought I was going to die the first time I tasted it. I actually might have gagged. It was terrible." - Antoinette Cattani, former manager at Fernet-Branca

For well over a century bitters have been a staple at the Italian dinner table, the French aperitif hour, and the American cocktail. What makes these bitters bitter? Why are some so much more drinkable than others? Join Rob Ficks, Head Bartender at The Hawthorne, as he guides a delicious and far-reaching tasting of the world of bitters, as well as an opportunity to craft your own bitter infusion to take for your home bar.

Location: 500A Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Register today!

Please direct your questions to cocktailclass@thehawthornebar.com.

 

 

 

 

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Cocktails 201: Tiki-isms

Jared Sadoian '10

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM 500A Commonwealth Av

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Prereq: Participants must be 21 or older by 01/9/18 w/ a valid ID
Fee: $90.00 for supplies

It's cold, wet, and snowy in Boston - why not take a liquid vacation to the islands?

Hugely popular in post-war America, Tiki culture has seen a resurgence this past decade in themed restaurants, tiki-inspired cocktail bars, and in print. Learn the history and importance of these drinks viewed from the lens of a craft cocktail bar. Limited to 12 participants, we'll cover ingredient recipes and prep while we shake, swizzle, and blend up our own concoctions. No plane tickets to the Pacific islands required!

Participants will leave this seminar with a set of Tiki-specific tools to craft these delicious drinks at home.

Location: The Hawthorne, 500A Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Register today!

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Crossed Structure Binding Workshop

Ayako Letizia, Conservation Associate

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 10:00AM-12:00PM 14-0513

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Learn a non-adhesive bookbinding style known as the “Crossed Structure binding.” In this hands-on workshop you will sew a book and cover it with handmade paper. Materials will be provided. We will have tools on hand to borrow for the duration of the class.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3777263

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ayako Letizia, 14-0513, 617 253-5282, AYAKO@MIT.EDU


Design and build your own skateboard or long board with a custom decorative wood inlay top

Coby Unger, Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 5 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Hobby Shop Membership
Fee: $85.00 for Deck supplies. Wheels and trucks are purchased separately

Over the course of this class we will use the CNC router, laser, vacuum bag and manually operated woodworking tools. No prior woodworking experience is necessary. We will first cover mold design in Fusion 360 and operation of the CNC router to cut a lamination mold for a total of two board designs chosen by the class participants. The vacuum bag is used to glue laminate thin veneer layers together and create the curved deck blank. 
The laser cutter will be used for to make a decorative wood veneer top or bottom of your design. 

Sponsor(s): Hobby Shop
Contact: Coby Unger, W31-031, 617 253 4343, cobyu@mit.edu


Build Your own Skateboard

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W31-031

Participants must attend all sessions


Digital to Analog B&W Photography

Nicole Tariverdian, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and darkroom chemistry.

The intersection of the digital and analog photographic processes offers an interesting space for visual and conceptual investigation. During this 4 week workshop students will create analog photographs from digital imagery using several types of “non-traditional” negatives (such as transparency and contact prints).

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

 

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425

Nicole Tariverdian - Technical Instructor


DIY Sustainability With UA Sustain

Rebecca Grekin

Enrollment: please email ua-sustainability-outreach@mit.edu to confirm your spot!
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Come join members of the Undergraduate Association Committee on Sustainability learn how to make DIY projects that will help you live life more sustainably! 

Projects include: 

Come learn how to make reusable sandwich containers from milk jugs! They're light enough to carry anywhere, easy to clean, and you'll always have a way to take advantage of left over free food!

Can't get that last bit of chapstick out? Don't worry! Save money and learn how to make your own chapstick (and reuse your old chapstick/lipstick containers along the way).

Come spend some fun time with your fellow students trying to give your old career fair t shirts a new life! The lesson includes introduction to sewing and making an awesome and sustainable bag. You’ll be take on confidently torn shirts and buttons after this class!

Dryer sheets can't be reused and have toxins in them that can get on your skin. Learn how to make dryer balls to use instead of dryer sheets. They are safe, and you can reuse them for up to 5 years!

 

Limited to 30 participants, please email UA-Sustainability-Outreach@MIT.edu to confirm your spot! 

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Association
Contact: Rebecca Grekin, RGREKIN@MIT.EDU


Reusable Sandwich Container

Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 07:30PM-08:30PM Location TBD

Come learn how to make reusable sandwich containers from milk jugs! They're light enough to carry anywhere, easy to clean, and you'll always have a way to take advantage of left over free food!

Ava Waitz


Making Natural Chapstick

Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 07:30PM-08:30PM Location TBD

Can't get that last bit of chapstick out? Don't worry! Save money and learn how to make your own chapstick (and reuse your old chapstick/lipstick containers along the way).

Vivian Song


Sewing Basics and Shopping Bag Making

Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 07:30PM-08:30PM Location TBD

Come spend some fun time with your fellow students trying to give your old career fair t shirts a new life! The lesson includes introduction to sewing and making an awesome and sustainable bag. You'll be take on confidently torn shirts and buttons after this class!

Rebecca Grekin


Natural Dyer Ball Making

Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 07:30PM-08:30PM Location TBD

Dryer sheets can't be reused and have toxins in them that can get on your skin. Learn how to make dryer balls to use instead of dryer sheets. They are safe, and you can reuse them for up to 5 years!

Valerie Muldoon


Fox Hunt

Daniel Sheen

Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 07:00PM-08:30PM 50-358

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

There will be a "fox" (a radio transmitter) hidden somewhere on campus. Join the Radio Society in using our ham radio equipment to locate and retrieve the fox. No radio experience or equipment necessary, and no animals were harmed in the making of this event.

Note: We will be leaving from 50-358 and searching around campus. If we have already left when you arrive, feel free to email us. If you are looking for us and email at the given contact email but don't get a response quickly enough, please email w1mx-officers@mit.edu or call Daniel Sheen at 617-390-6480.

Sponsor(s): Radio Society
Contact: Jordyn Mann, JORDYNM@MIT.EDU


Ham Exams

Steve Finberg

Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM 1-150

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

On the second-to-last Wednesday of each month, exams are held to earn ham radio licenses. Come this month and get or upgrade your license! Technician, General, and Amateur Extra exams are offered. 

Sponsor(s): Radio Society
Contact: Jordyn Mann, JORDYNM@MIT.EDU


Ham Radio Class and Antenna Building

Matthew Goldstein, Daniel Sheen

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend the class to attend the antenna building session

The MIT Radio Society will be teaching an introductory class on ham radio, including antenna theory, ohms law, RF modulation, propagation, radio history, emergency uses, weather balloons, and mounbounce. Join us to learn about these topics, and maybe even get inspired to take your ham exam with us the following week! After the class, we'll have an antenna building session. Then you can put your new antenna and knowledge to use the following night with a foxhunt, which is essentially a scavenger hunt in which we seach for a radio transmitter using radio equipment. Sign up for the class here.

Sponsor(s): Radio Society
Contact: Jordyn Mann, JORDYNM@MIT.EDU


Ham Radio Class

Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 05:30PM-07:00PM 2-135

Join us for an introductory class on ham radio, including antenna theory, ohms law, RF modulation, propagation, radio history, emergency uses, weather balloons, and mounbounce!

Matthew Goldstein, Daniel Sheen


Antenna Building

Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 07:00PM-09:00PM 50-358

Put your new knowledge to good use by building an antenna!

Note: You should attend the class session if you plan on attending this session.

Matthew Goldstein, Daniel Sheen


Foxhunt

Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 07:00PM-08:30PM Meet at 50-358

Bring the antenna you built the day before and join us for a foxhunt, in which we search around campus to find a radio trasmitter. Attending the class and building an antenna beforehand is not required for this session.

Matthew Goldstein, Daniel Sheen


Handset Printing at the Beaver Press Print Shop

Jeffrey Ravel, Professor and Head of History, Anne McCants, Professor of History and Director of Concourse

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 3 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

Have you ever wanted to set type the way Johannes Gutenberg and Benjamin Franklin did?  Print your own political pamphlets and broadsides?  Design greeting cards and announcements?  Now you can do these things and more at The Beaver Press Print Shop, MIT's own handset printing press, located on the eighth floor of Barker Library, Room 10-801.  The press was built in 21H.343 during Spring 2016; learn more here and here.  We will be holding open printing hours from 1:30 to 5:30 on the days listed below.  Space is limited, so please sign up here.

Sponsor(s): Concourse, History
Contact: Jeffrey Ravel, E51-255C, 617 253-4451, RAVEL@MIT.EDU


Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging FULL AND WAITLISTED

Hiroko Matsuyama

Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 02:00PM-03:30PM E40-496, Lucian Pye Conf Rm

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants
Fee: $10.00 for Materials (due at time of registration)

Hiroko Matsuyama, an accomplished instructor of the Ohara school of Ikebana, will show you the basics of this ancient art as you create your own flower arrangements.

To register, please contact Christine Pilcavage at csp18@mit.edu. Your registration is not complete unless you have paid your $10 registration fee. You will forfeit your registration if you do not pay by Wed. January 10 and your place will be given to the next person on the waiting list

Please note there is currently a waitlist for this class. 

 

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Japan Program
Contact: Christine Pilcavage, csp18@mit.edu


Interpreting a Still Life

Nicole Tariverdian, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $105.00 for materials

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Alberto Giacometti

Students will learn about drawing and painting from observation as well as about making successful creative choices. During this workshop students will observe real objects, and learn to translate the physical world to the representational via drawing and painting. Precursory sketches and a final mixed media piece will be created. Students will look to Wayne Thibaud, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Cezanne, and Henri Matisse for inspiration.

Students should bring their own canvas (any shape/size, but no smaller than 14 X 14, please!) and a #2 pencil on the first day.  Other materials are supplied by the SAA.  Art supplies are available at Artist and Craftsman and Blick Art, both in Central Square, Cambridge.

 Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 08:00PM-10:30PM W20-425

Nicole Tariverdian - Technical Instructor


Introduction to Gum Bichromate Printing

Thery Mislick, Studio Manager, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $165.00 for materials and darkroom chemistry.

Experience the joy of one of the earliest photographic printing processes while working from your own digital and/or analog images.   This  intensive workshop is designed to introduce students to the beautiful and versatile world of gum bichromate printing. Gum printing utilizes a contact negative and non-silver emulsion to produce delicate, painterly images that permit a high degree of artistic expression. The basic process is simple and fun.

Class will cover all aspects of the gum process: paper preparation, negative preparation, and printing.

Students should bring three to five images or a selection of digital image files to the first class.

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 06:00PM-09:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 06:00PM-09:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 06:00PM-09:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 06:00PM-09:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/20 Sat 01:00PM-06:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/21 Sun 01:00PM-06:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 06:00PM-09:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/27 Sat 01:00PM-06:00PM W20-425
Add to Calendar Jan/28 Sun 01:00PM-06:00PM W20-425

Thery Mislick - Studio Manager, Technical Instructor


January VHF Contest

Daniel Sheen

Add to Calendar Jan/20 Sat 02:00PM-11:45PM Green Building
Add to Calendar Jan/21 Sun 12:00AM-11:00PM Green Building

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

Join the UHF Repeater association and the Radio Society for this rapid-fire contest and help us make as many contacts as possible on VHF amateur radio bands! Make contact with people all over the area. No prior radio experience required.

Note: Please head to the base of the Green Building and email w1mx-officers@mit.edu, and someone will come find you. If you are looking for us and email at this email but don't get a response quickly enough, please call Daniel Sheen at 617-390-6480. Feel free to email the given contact email (jordynm@mit.edu) with any questions you have!

Sponsor(s): Radio Society
Contact: Jordyn Mann, JORDYNM@MIT.EDU


Learn Massage, Thursday's

John Bondlow

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: no required to attend all sessions
Prereq: to sign up please visit mitrecsports.com
Fee: $65.00 for members, $100 nonmembers

This course combines various massage techniques, with a cursory view of anatomy & physiology, theory and application of therapeutic massage. As is the nature of massage, this course is experiential and the material will be presented in lecture-demonstration, discussion, and hands-on participation. Have fun and feel great learning something very useful for you and for others. Visit mitrecsports.com for more information

This class is not available for PE credit.

Sponsor(s): Athletics, Physical Education
Contact: Karissa Bollinger, karissab@mit.edu


IAP Learn Massage

Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 03:00PM-04:30PM W59
Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 03:00PM-04:30PM W59
Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 03:00PM-04:30PM W59
Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 03:00PM-04:30PM W59

Letterlocking: Queen Elizabeth I's letterlocking techniques

Jana Dambrogio

Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM 14-0513

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Come to the Wunsch Conservation Lab and use handmade paper, ink, sealing wax, and your brass rats to letterlock like the sixteenth-century queen. Participants will learn how to paper engineer, build physical security, and add authentication enhancements into their paper-based correspondence. The class will view original locked manuscripts from 17th–20th centuries.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3777630

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jana Dambrogio, jld@mit.edu


Metalsmithing

Justin Playl, Maker in Residence

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $115.00 for materials

Learn the basics of metalsmithing as you make your own small metal sculptures, toys, or jewelry. In this 4-week course, we will explore fundamental techniques for cutting, forming, and joining metal using common, everyday tools.  In particular, we will focus on cold connections— methods for joining metal that do not require heat, so they can be done anywhere, without special equipment.

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 12:00PM-02:30PM W20-429
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 12:00PM-02:30PM W20-429
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 12:00PM-02:30PM W20-429
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 12:00PM-02:30PM W20-429

Justin Playl - Maker in Residence


Mighty Mugs A

Jason Pastorello, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for Materials and firing fees.

Explore the world of clay through a variety of techniques used to create the mug.  Wheelthrowing and handbuilding methods are combined to construct a mug fit for you, a family member or even a friend! If you drink coffee or tea and are interested in clay, this class is for you!

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/08 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431

There is one additional class meeting on February 5, 2018.

Jason Pastorello - Technical Instructor


Mighty Mugs B

Jason Pastorello, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for Materials and firing fees.

Explore the world of clay through a variety of techniques used to create the mug.  Wheelthrowing and handbuilding methods are combined to construct a mug fit for you, a family member or even a friend! If you drink coffee or tea and are interested in clay, this class is for you!

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/08 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431

There is one additional class meeting February 5, 2018

Jason Pastorello - Technical Instructor


Mighty Mugs C

Jason Pastorello, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for Materials and firing fees.

Explore the world of clay through a variety of techniques used to create the mug.  Wheelthrowing and handbuilding methods are combined to construct a mug fit for you, a family member or even a friend! If you drink coffee or tea and are interested in clay, this class is for you!

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - Technical Instructor


MIT Writers' Group

Steven Strang

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

Calling all creative writers! Want to write something creative but need some motivation or support or some thoughtful readers?  Join other MIT writers to get advice about your own writing, to be a reader of other writers' work, and/or to get inspiration to write something. Any type of creative writing is welcomed:  e.g., fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, memoirs, personal essays, plays, blog entries, book reviews. We help each other get started on a creative writing project, we help each other develop ideas and style, and we function as engaged and encouraging readers of each other's material.  The Group includes emerging and established writers. We meet every Monday from noon-1:00 p.m. Open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, lecturers, staff, faculty, spouses and partners. Please note that this is not a class and not a group for technical writing or for thesis writing.

Please email <smstrang@mit.edu> to register.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E18-233 B, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU


MIT's Writers Group

Add to Calendar Jan/08 Mon 12:00PM-01:00PM E17-136
Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 12:00PM-01:00PM E17-136
Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 12:00PM-01:00PM E17-136

Steven Strang


Session Title TBD

Session Leaders TBD


Nighttime Knitting!

Rachel Kurchin, Fabiola Hernandez

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Come hang out and (learn to) knit! This will be an informal gathering of knitting enthusiasts, with at least a few people there each week willing to lend materials and teach. No expertise required!

Anyone is welcome to drop in for any session, but if you'd like to be added to the email list, please contact Fabi at fabiolah@mit.edu .

We will also make an earnest attempt to continue updating the blog we started during this activity last year - check it out at https://nighttimeknitting.wordpress.com .

Contact: Rachel Kurchin, RKURCHIN@MIT.EDU


Nighttime Knitting!

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 06:30PM-08:30PM Dollar Bill Lounge
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 06:30PM-08:30PM Dollar Bill Lounge
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 06:30PM-08:30PM Dollar Bill Lounge
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 06:30PM-08:30PM Dollar Bill Lounge

We'll meet in the Dollar Bill Lounge along the Infinite Corridor. Feel free to drop in for any part of any/all sessions!

Rachel Kurchin, Fabiola Hernandez


Old Food: Sourdough Bread Basics

Anne McCants, Professor of History

Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 10:00AM-03:00PM Burton Conner

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 12 participants
Prereq: None

From the Fertile Crescent to the Klondike gold rush sourdough bread baking has been a fundamental component of human existence.  Come learn all the steps of making a true sourdough bread from start to finish.  And enjoy getting to eat the result!  No baking experience required but wear clothes you don’t mind getting flour on.  Depending on the number of participants we may make other kinds of bread as well.  No fee, but sign-ups limited to 15.

Please click here to register.

 

Sponsor(s): History
Contact: Anne McCants, E51-263, 617 258-6669, amccants@mit.edu


Old Food: Sourdough Bread Basics

Anne McCants, Professor of History

Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 10:00AM-03:00PM Burton Conner

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 14 participants
Prereq: None

From the Fertile Crescent to the Klondike gold rush sourdough bread baking has been a fundamental component of human existence.  Come learn all the steps of making a true sourdough bread from start to finish.  And enjoy getting to eat the result!  No baking experience required but wear clothes you don’t mind getting flour on.  Depending on the number of participants we may make other kinds of bread as well.  No fee, but sign-ups limited to 14.

Please click here to register.

Sponsor(s): History
Contact: Anne McCants, E51-263, 617 258-6669, amccants@mit.edu


Post-Apocalypse Fiber Arts

Jeanne Marie Wildman

Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM E51-095

Enrollment: Advance sign-up preferred but not required
Sign-up by 01/31
Limited to 20 participants

Tales of apocalypse rivet our imagination. We wonder not only how survivors would recreate society, but also about day-to-day practical survival in a world of disrupted supply chains. This class taps into that vein of interest by teaching fiber techniques with upcycled or ordinary household materials as inputs and useful objects as outputs.

I will provide tools, supplies and beginning instruction on basket coiling, pin loom weaving, and felting.  Our goal is the satisfaction of handcrafting practical things, rather than prepping for a real-life apocalypse.
 
Materials provided (but if you sign up in advance you will get suggestions of things on hand that you might want to bring and transform).

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Jeanne Marie Wildman, jwildman@mit.edu


(CANCELED) Secret Belgian Binding

Kate Beattie

Jan/11 Thu 10:00AM-01:00PM Wunsch Lab, 14-0513

Enrollment: sign up here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3783288
Limited to 6 participants
Prereq: Manual dexterity

Learn a non-adhesive sewn bookbinding style using colorful boards and thread. Materials will be provided. We will have tools on hand to borrow for the duration of the class. No walk-ins allowed. Prerequisite: Manual Dexterity. Open to the MIT Community. Limited to 6 Participants.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3783288

Directions:   http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=14&Buildings=go

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kate Beattie, Wunsch Lab, 14-0513, knb@mit.edu


Super Bowls A

Jason Pastorello, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and firing fees.

Explore the world of clay through a variety of techniques used to create the bowl.  Wheelthrowing and handbuilding methods are combined to construct a bowl fit for you, a family member or even a friend!  If you like cereal, soups and salads and are interested in clay, this class is for you!

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - Technical Instructor


Super Bowls B

Jason Pastorello, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and firing fees.

Explore the world of clay through a variety of techniques used to create the bowl.  Wheelthrowing and handbuilding methods are combined to construct a bowl fit for you, a family member or even a friend!  If you like cereal, soups and salads and are interested in clay, this class is for you!

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - Technical Instructor


Super Bowls C

Jason Pastorello, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $110.00 for materials and firing fees.

Explore the world of clay through a variety of techniques used to create the bowl.  Wheelthrowing and handbuilding methods are combined to construct a bowl fit for you, a family member or even a friend!  If you like cereal, soups and salads and are interested in clay, this class is for you!

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - Technical Instructor


Tasting Hour: Cocktail History in a Glass (Yours!)

Jared Sadoian '10

Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 06:00PM-07:00PM 500A Commonwealth Av

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: 21 or older by 1/29/18
Fee: $40.00 for for supplies

Cocktail history is often a muddled mess. After all, who's writing anything down once the drinking begins? Thankfully, over the past two centuries we have begun to collect and decipher a collection of true, time-tested drinks, spanning a variety of eras.

Now more than ever cocktails bars seek to innovate and create new concepts, new techniques, or new flavor combinations, but often when we are starting out it's better to look back to the history books and learn why people drank what they drank, and what makes each one a classic.

Join Rob Ficks, Head Bartender at The Hawthorne as he tours you through the history books, from toddies, flips, and sangarees to juleps, cocktails, and much more!

Location: The Hawthorne, 500A Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215

Register today!

Please direct your questions to cocktailclass@thehawthornebar.com.

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Tasting Hour: Rye, Bourbon, and Beyond

Jared Sadoian '10

Add to Calendar Jan/15 Mon 06:00PM-07:00PM 500A Commonwealth Av

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: 21 or older by the start date of the class 1/15/18
Fee: $55.00 for for supplies

'Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.' - Mark Twain.

American whiskey has seen an incredible revival in the past decade, becoming one of the most popular and sought-after spirit categories in the world. We will discuss it's humble beginnings up to it's recent resurgence in the form of spicy rye, rich bourbon, and complex single malt whiskey. Join Rob Ficks, Head Bartender at The Hawthorne as he covers the history of American whiskey, including a flight of some wonderful representatives from each style.

Location: The Hawthorne, 500A Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Register today!

Please direct your questions to cocktailclass@thehawthornebar.com

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Tasting Hour: Tequila is a Region, Agave is a Culture

Jared Sadoian '10

Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 06:00PM-07:00PM 500A Commonwealth Av

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: 21 or older by 1/22/18
Fee: $40.00 for for supplies

There is no spirit in the world as deeply connected to a place and a people than agave distillates - Tequila, Mezcal, and their countryside brethren. It is also a tradition endangered by industrial agricultural practices and mass-market distribution. Join Jared Sadoian '10, Bar Manager of The Hawthorne, as he takes you through his travels through the tequila and mezcal-producting regions and share in a representative tasting of the category.

Location: The Hawthorne, 500A Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Register today!

Please direct your questions to cocktailclass@thehawthornebar.com.

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Totally Teapots

Darrell Finnegan, Studio Manager, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $120.00 for materials and firing fees.

Oval, wavy, stretched or crazy, the teapot is a wonderful subject that will show us a balance between functionality and creativity. In this 4 week intermediate and advanced level IAP workshop we will explore unusual forming techniques and surprising surface treatments that take us beyond the “round”. Would you like one lump or two?

Register online at arts.mit.edu/saa

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Stacy Debartolo, E15-205A, 617 253-4003, STACYP@MIT.EDU


Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431

Darrell Finnegan - Studio Manager, Technical Instructor


Tradition, Redesigned

Juju Wang, artists

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 10:00AM-02:00PM 9-450, Lunch is provided

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The lecture will be given by Juju Wang, known as the interactive magician in the field of art, mixing traditional Chinese culture with modern art. Her bold use of new materials and emotional and rational creativity standards have established a unique personal style. Tradition redesigned aims to connect students with artistic activity, that has built a coalition between east and west, found at the edge of a changing society and that goes beyond conventions.

Deconstructing old Chinese practices into elements that are reborn into a contemporary form, Juju's installations focused on generating art installation pieces that interact with people, public spaces, and heritage architecture, contributing to an emerging new generation. The presentation has the role to expose how she brought Chinese crafts into the contemporary media, searching for hidden and on many occasions lost meanings behind traditional Chinese stories and rebirths them into a face changing society.

The selected works are ways in which by using traditional materials and techniques and gave them a reinvented form using a mixture of contemporary ingredients and computerized elements.

Also, it is a continuing process in which she focuses on educating the younger generations and make them aware of the importance of our cultural background and heritage.

Hands-on session allows students to mix golden leaf with Chinese calligraphy to produce paintings on their own. 

Contact: Xin Zhang, (202) 281-4718, XINZHANG@MIT.EDU


Triple Foxtrot

Joey Murphy

Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 07:00PM-11:00PM 50-358
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 07:00PM-11:00PM 50-358
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 07:00PM-11:00PM 50-358
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 07:00PM-11:00PM 50-358

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

Each week, the Radio Society meets in the shack for a few hours on Friday night and does something fun and related to ham radio. Join us! Past activities include tuning in to amateur radio bands and hearing stations all over the world, opening up and looking at a radio transmitter, and learning about how our antennas work. This is also a particularly good event to chat with and get to know the members of the Radio Society.

Sponsor(s): Radio Society
Contact: Jordyn Mann, JORDYNM@MIT.EDU


Zine-Making Workshop

Rhonda Kauffman

Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 01:00PM-03:00PM 2-103

Enrollment: Sign up here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3757941

Zines (rhymes with “beans”) are independently- and often self-published, photocopied, cut and paste publications created for passion rather than profit. They have roots in 1950s sci-fi, punk rock, riot grrrl, and underground scenes. They are made for trading, communicating and sharing and cover any topic under the sun, including Dr. Who’s Authority Record, cats, social justice, cooking, parenting, and Morrissey. In this workshop, we will examine zines from the 1990s to today, hear about current trends in zine librarianship, the mechanics of making zines, and, of course, we’ll make a zine! Attendees are encouraged to bring writings/art/craft supplies, etc. that can be used to create a zine. The instructor will provide supplies (paper, stamps, markers, stickers, old magazines, craft paper, pens, staplers, glue sticks).

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3757941

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Rhonda Kauffman, rhonda@mit.edu