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February 18, 2020 3:30–5:30 pm
TEC - Classroom
Textile Arts

Electrify Your Gear: A Roots Collaboration

Taught by Sandra Bermond

About the Workshop

During this basic introduction to sewing with conductive thread and LEDs you’ll build a simple circuit that will illuminate when you’re done. No experience with sewing required! Take a break from looking at a computer screen and try this tactile form of creativity using technology. Each attendee will be able to bring their circuit home with them.

We’ll be sewing by hand and all materials will be provided, but if you have a shirt, fabric, or other item (e.g., hat) you would like to use instead of a Co-Lab t-shirt, feel free to bring it to the workshop.

This workshop is part of “Textile Week,” a collaboration with the Roots workshop series.

About the Instructor

Sandra Bermond is the Innovation Co-Lab’s program manager. Her main focus is to construct an all-encompassing and interesting curriculum for the Co-Lab’s roots program, as well as lend her knowledge in the areas of Design and Website Creation. Sandra has a passion for making things, both digital and physical and spends the best part of her days creating or improving things previously created.

About the Location

The TEC (Technology Engagement Center) Classroom is in the Telcom Building. To get there, just walk down the stairs from Perkins/Bostock like you’re heading towards CIEMAS. When you get to the road halfway down, make a right and Telcom is the building ahead of you to the left. The Technology Engagement Center is the first floor, so just enter in the front of the building. The classroom is to the right of the entrance, adjacent to the center circular room.

Here is a map.

About Duke Arts Create

Duke Arts Create is a series of free, hands-on arts workshops designed to help all Duke students, including graduate and professional students (including Duke Health), as well as Duke faculty and staff develop a variety of creative skills in the visual arts, dance and movement, creative writing and more. Workshops are open to all skill levels and backgrounds. Most workshops are held in the Duke Arts Annex, the Rubenstein Arts Center or the Duke Arts Office 2101 and are typically held weeknights from 6-8 p.m.

Registration for the following week’s workshops go live on Friday mornings at 9 a.m. – sign up in advance to guarantee your spot. Didn’t get a spot? No problem! We always reserve space for walk-ins. Email DukeCreate@duke.edu if you have any questions. Sign up for the monthly newsletter here, which includes the full list of classes offered during the following month.

Duke Arts Create is sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts (Duke Arts).