Session Description:
To provide inclusive creative spaces, librarians must listen to the motivations and desires of untapped creators. This panel features four women creators recasting the gendered narrative of maker culture, sharing their experiences and motivations. Attendees will hear the stories of an undergraduate filmmaker confronting racism in her documentaries, an artist navigating the androcentric world of 3D-printing to construct an extremely complex 3-D printed dress, a student employee of a library makerspace encouraging high school juniors and seniors to pursue a degree in engineering, and a professor who co-founded a local makerspace and directs an entrepreneurial leadership center.
