Join us at upcoming events and workshops:
On the first Friday evening of the month, Studio Bricolage offers creative and adventurous adults the chance to try different activities. One month it could be a project related to electricity, another month weird and wacky contraptions. As always, you can expect an endless supply of building materials and the necessary tools and building advice to help you build a project to take home.
Bring your creativity -- and your friends! Feel free to just show up. No pre-registration required. No experience necessary. $10 at the Door -- Food & Beverage Included.
Leonardo's Basement, 4301 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis 55409
Map Look for the entrance on 43rd Street, near the alley; under Anodyne Coffeehouse.
- June 4 & 5 Kites, Planes, Balloons & Rockets
Build any or all of these flying ideas on Friday night and launch them the following Saturday afternoon. - July 2 Pyrotechnics!
Delayed from last fall, but not forgotten. Explosive fun.
As a lot of you know, Studio Bricolage loves to make stuff and show others how things are made but we've realized that not everyone is a maker / builder. We also found out that there are a lot of people who love to learn without getting their hands dirty. So we will respond to offer those with our new Field Trip Series.
For example, a handful of people want to go on field trips - just like when you were in grade school. We've kicked around a few ideas for one-day trips to places like:
- a surgical theater
- the UPS depot
- Pearson Candies factory
- water jet cutting facility
- glass blowing studio
- large recycling center
- police forensics lab
- gun range
- bee apiary
- windmill tour
- engine rebuilding at the airport
- the downtown incinerator
- operating a bulldozer or backhoe
- observing an industrial kitchen in action
You get the idea. Studio Bricolage will happily arrange experiences that you can't find at any other place (that's our charter, by the way). We plan to have a hands-on element at most field trip sites. Let us know what you think about the ideas mentioned above. Do you know of an obscure or ultra-fascinating place that people would like to see? Do you have an idea for something that you'd like to learn about or build? Tell us about it! Check back later to find out where we are going!
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PAST EVENTS
Fountains, rain barrels, sprinklers and big squirt guns - May 7
We had a lot of fun messing with water on a soggy, rainy night. Couldn't make the First Friday but want to make one of those big squirt guns? Click here for instructions and supply list. They are called Waterzookas from Funtelligent.
Check out the fun we had creating photo and video micrographs on a USB microscope, designing small art on big balloons, lasering impossibly small things with the laser engraver and more!
The MIXOLOGY Series at Bradstreet Craftshouse was a great success. Take a look below at the MIXOLOGY 3 festivities and read Randy Hanson's well-written account of the day called Summit Sips. We couldn't have written it better! It is an ongoing collection of musings about recipes, techniques, tools and other cocktail-related topics.
Fox 9 News' MA Rosko visited before the first workshop... take a look at the feature video
Check out all the fun here from the first MIXOLOGY class.
Take a look at the photos from the 3rd annual Ice Sculpture Party held at Griggs Park in St. Paul. Wow, what a turn out with lots to do.
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HEY! Check out these great animated Gifs (simple stop-animation movies) made at the Gif It Up! class held on February 9th.
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Lamp Making workshop In mid-January we let folks who were enticed at the Lamp Making First Friday to come and play around with some other ideas. For two nights, bricoleurs ripped apart old lamps and re-purposed them into magical light-emitting devices. It was a lot of fun to explore! See below... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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And check back for future class offerings. FIRST FRIDAY 7-10 PM DECEMBER 4 Do you like this whipped-cream powered rocket ship? Do you want to make a video like this? Hey, we're offering a class to teach you just that.  November 6 Performance Sculpture: Kinetic Art was the theme with guest artist Tim Fort who taught us how to build chain-reaction wonders that explode, collapse and amaze. We also dove into the world of slow moving motors and wind powered devices. There's even the world's first wax-powered clock. Here are more videos and photos than you can shake a sculpture at. Tim's website is at: http://www.lunatim.com/kinart/kinetic.shtml October 2 LAMPS! We had a blast making all kinds of lamps and with a impromptu photo studio we bring you these pictures.
Thanks to Schafer Richardson Real Estate for donating machine shop space for building.  July 19th Lake Calhoun Shark!!On Sunday intrepid Bricoleurs braved the icy waters of Lake Calhoun trying desperately to escape the gnashing jaws of a 160'- long shark! Frightened onlookers marveled at the fin and enjoyed the incredibly loud "Jaws" theme music. To see more shark photos bite here.
 April 3 PAPER BUILDING
In April, local artists Margaret Pezalla and Westy Copeland as well as other Makers showed how to make beautiful paper art. We made paper automata, built mathematical structures, cut with the laser, weaved beautiful paterns, created amazing colorful surfaces and "sewed" kraft paper suit jackets, vests and hats. It was an amazing "flatland" evening. Look at this Slideshow of amazing paper work.
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March 6 Second Annual Rube Goldberg Machine Building Event Take a look at the slideshow, and check back to see this years video.
Take a look at last years video of the First Annual Rube Goldberg video. |
Thanks for coming!
It was held on the East side of Lake of the Isles by the ice skating rink
People made and played with ice and brought it to sculpt with. It was free and it was fun! We have instructions for making ice here. |
- Building Jacobs Ladders
- Lighting up wood and drawing with electricity!
- Making Fluorescent Sculptures |
"Uber Tuber" Making fries fly!
A crew from TPT's new television show MAKE:television filmed the amazing spud into french fries invention. Watch the video. |
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