A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Project teams talk about this drive-able sculpture and the setbacks they had to overcome. Areas like electrical, programming, welding, resin casting, sheet metal fabrication and CNC fabrication to just name a few will discussed by each team.
Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Jon made the trip out to California to create the metal furniture company Form & Reform in 1987. He has studied and worked as a blacksmith/ fabricator for over 25 years; pouring his creativity into exceling at his work and having plain old fun. He has been featured on the Discovery Channel with the Power Tool Drag Races and the History Channel with the vortex cannon he worked on with Survival Research Laboratories. He now heads his own art collective; The Empire of Dirt. This Oilpunk group built a stage show looking as if it was from a turn of the century oil town, The Giant Iron Snail Art Car The Golden Mean ,The Electrobite, (a personal transportation fossil), the Zepelini (a personnel flying machine); and in 2011 and 2012 Burning Man honored Jon and company with a grant to build the Serpent Twins. Jon is married to Kyrsten Mate, a feature film sound designer who has combined pattern making with metal fabrication to help create their pieces. She also provides much of the push to keep their pieces whimsical and unique and enjoys creating the "backstory" behind every sculpture.
Jillian Northrup is an interior designer, artist, and photographer. She and Jeffrey McGrew (Architect & Designer) Co-founded the company Because We Can, Inc where they design and build amazing houses, Interiors and bespoke furniture pieces.
Co-Founder of Because We Can with Jillian Northrup. Because We Can is a Design-Build studio, specializing in bespoke building design, amazing interiors and fantastical furniture.
