TechShop will be adding a new lecture and demo series! We will be inviting artists, engineers, and makers to share their motives and techniques with our community in a group setting. Suggested Donation, $5. Donations will be used to off-set the cost of the event, and to build the event in the future. They can be made at the door!

Open to Members & Non-members. Snacks and drink will be provided.

Please RSVP here.

Oreen Cohen // www.oreencohen.com

With a visceral approach towards material and site, Oreen creates publicly performed actions and sculptural interventions that attempt to transform transient spaces into places of meaning. Symbolic industrial materials and gesture is used to cultivate social allegories that re-interpret the past, solidify the present, and anticipate the future.

Sean Derry // www.seanderry.com

Sean Derry grew up in Alaska. His family moved to the territory via steamship in the late nineteenth century and later established one of the largest commercial reindeer herds in the history of Alaska. Derry’s ongoing interest in mechanical devices and amateur engineering canbe at least partially attributed to his childhood experience repairing Craftsman lawnmowers. In his artistic practice, he explores the lived experience of a place and investigates alternative strategies for inhabiting these environments. Derry’s work includes installations, commissions and curatorial projects. He has developed projects for the Rivers of Steel Heritage Area, Trust for Public Land, Anchorage Museum at the Rasmuson Center, Art in Action, National Institute for Fitness and Sport, and Waterman Agricultural Center. He has completed public commissions for the University of Alaska, the City of Indianapolis, and Indianapolis Cultural Trail. In 2006, Derry’s commission, Charting Pogue’s Run, was featured in the Americans for the Arts Year in Review. Derry is the recipient of grants from the Sprout Fund, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and Edith Fergus-Gilmore Trust. Sean Derry currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the area head of sculpture at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.