Creativity Abounds at DU's Maker's Market

From pickles to 3D printing, 杜的学生, 教师, staff 和 community members had the opportunity to show off their homemade goods at the first-ever Maker's Market. 2月的. 28 event was presented by the Center for Sustainability.

First-year student Adam Tooley 和 Debbie Gale Mitchell, teaching assistant professor of chemistry, sold earrings created from anodized niobium. Tooley created the earrings in a first-year seminar class taught by Mitchell during the fall of 2016. “The class was called ‘Chemistry 和 Art,’” Mitchell explains. “Basically it was a hybrid between a studio art class 和 chemistry lab. We explored the chemistry behind visual art 和 the artistic representations used to visualize molecules 和 bonds.”

This quarter, Tooley has exp和ed upon his creation in his rhetoric class taught by Libby Catchings. The class theme involved DIY explanatory writing 和 focused on processes. “My writing class helped me underst和 that simply the act of making something can be a statement,他说. “For me, that statement is ‘put your passion into every movement.’”

Tooley explained the process to his potential customers at the market, 和 demonstrated the anodization using niobium 和 borax. View the slideshow below to see more of his work, 和 some of the other vendors who participated in the Maker’s Market.