Generator

⚡Generator Is Hiring! ⚡

We are seeking a part-time Business & Membership Coordinator to serve as a key administrative hub, bookkeeper, and logistical coordinator for our makerspace community. This role will work directly with our members while managing important business workflows, and will help refine the membership experience to keep it accessible, welcoming, and fully supportive of our vibrant maker ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

➡️ Deliver exceptional customer service by addressing member inquiries about billing & events, and general requests

➡️ Maintain consistent, proactive communication with members across digital forums, email, phone, and face to face

➡️ Manage user onboarding and off-boarding, including payment scheduling, user surveys, and administrative transitions

➡️ Manage daily data entry and keep member profiles updated across internal databases and payment processing platforms

Application Deadline: Monday, August 28th

Learn More & Apply >> https://generatorvt.com/employment

Join us TOMORROW EVENING on Friday from 5-7:30pm for a showcase of Jennifer Koch's lastest work!

Jennifer's work features massive woodblock prints inspired by faceted garnets, collections of leaves, and love itself. Come ask questions, get a behind-the-scenes look at woodblock printing, and see how a residency shapes an artist's work.

As always, this event is FREE and open to the public... But please RSVP!

Learn More & RSVP:
https://app.glueup.com/event/altered-leaves-eternal-love-triangle-woodblock-prints-189008/
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What: Artist Showcase with Jennifer Koch
Where: 40 Sears Ln in Burlington
When: Friday, August 7th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm

🔺Calling All Quilters & Developing Quilters!🔺

Come help the project Pride & Joy push their community art quilts over the finish line. No sewing experience needed!

We have plenty of different tasks to complete, and many hands make light work. Here's what you can expect to jump into:

➡️ Binding quilts – an easy skill to pick up on the fly

➡️ Tying quilts – the simplest hand-quilting method, with room for several people to work on the same quilt at once

➡️ Hand quilting – just a bit trickier than tying, still simple, and also open to multiple people at a time

➡️ Appliqué and embellishments – sew on appliqué pieces and add embellishments to different quilts

➡️ "Heck Yeah!" affirmation quilt – write and decorate affirmations for q***r youth on quilt blocks for a special quilt headed to Outright Vermont

Bring yourself, your fam, a few friends you haven't seen in a while - all ages and abilities are welcome! Come as you are and learn a new skill or two while you help out. Skilled volunteers from local quilt guilds and fabric shops will be on hand at the technique-focused stations to help guide folks along.

Drop in anytime 10:00am-3:00pm and stay as long as you'd like.

About Pride & Joy
Pride & Joy is a community art project celebrating Q***r joy, vitality, and community through the medium of art quilts! We've commissioned quilt designs from 10 local artists and are organizing a series of free, public crafting events inviting members of the community to contribute to the production of the quilts.

The quilts will be exhibited during the month of September, then auctioned off to fundraise for Outright Vermont​.

Learn more at prideandjoy.riotcraftstudio.com

⚡Come Learn To Weave With Us! ⚡

Join fiber artist Courtney Salerno () for a beginner-friendly Frame Loom Weaving Workshop!

Participants will earn the basics of setting up a loom, choosing yarns, and weaving techniques like plain weave, rya knots, and soumak. Everyone will leave with their own small woven wall hanging and the skills to keep weaving at home.

No experience is needed... Just a little bit of curiosity!

All materials provided. Ages 14+. Spots are limited, sign up today!

Learn more and register at: https://app.glueup.com/event/beginner-frame-loom-weaving-185824/

⚡Artist Showcase: Altered Leaves & Eternal Love Triangle by Jennifer Koch⚡

Join us this FRIDAY at Generator on August 7th from 5:00–7:30pm to celebrate and explore new woodblock prints from our spring Artist-In-Residence, Jennifer Koch!

Jennifer's prints draw inspiration from faceted garnets, a collection of leaves, and love itself. During the showcase you'll get to learn about her process, how her practice evolved over the residency, and what she's learned along the way. Come ask questions, get a behind-the-scenes look at woodblock printing, and see how a residency shapes an artist's work.

Jennifer is a Burlington-based printmaker, object-based sculptor, and collage artist, and she will be donating 50% of all proceeds from work sold back to Generator's Artist in Residence program, helping to keep this opportunity alive for the next artist.

As always, this event is FREE and open to the public... But please RSVP!

What: Artist Showcase with Jennifer Koch
Where: 40 Sears Ln in Burlington
When: Friday, August 7th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm

RSVP Today > https://app.glueup.com/event/altered-leaves-eternal-love-triangle-woodblock-prints-189008

Have you ever wondered how creators actually earn enough money to make a living?

Well… this week at Methods & Means we’ll be speaking with makers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs from the Burlington community to discuss the business and economics of making.

Every maker’s path is a bit different. Some people make for a living, some for fun, some are just messing around to see what happens. All of these approaches are worth exploring because there is always something to learn.

On Thursday (tomorrow) we’ll have five panelist, one moderator, and we’ll be taking questions from anyone and everyone in attendance.

Our lineup includes:

Emily Eley (moderator) – Emily Eley Creative
Christian Summer Roidt – CSR Woodworks
Caroline Patten – Mola Hoods
Katie Cameron – Cry Baby Clay
Holly Bahnsen – Wild Perennial Botanical Jewelry
Ethan Miller – Ethan Miller Fabrication & Design

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What: Methods & Means: Maker Economics
Where: Generator Makerspace
When: Thursday, July 30th
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: Free... but please RSVP

RSVP: www.generatorvt.com/methodsandmeans

⚡Artist Showcase: Altered Leaves & Eternal Love Triangle by Jennifer Koch⚡

Join us at Generator on Friday, August 7th from 5:00–7:30pm to celebrate and explore new woodblock prints from our spring Artist-In-Residence, Jennifer Koch!

Jennifer's prints draw inspiration from faceted garnets, a collection of leaves, and love itself. During the showcase you'll get to learn about her process, how her practice evolved over the residency, and what she's learned along the way. Come ask questions, get a behind-the-scenes look at woodblock printing, and see how a residency shapes an artist's work.

Jennifer is a Burlington-based printmaker, object-based sculptor, and collage artist, and she will be donating 50% of all proceeds from work sold back to Generator's Artist in Residence program, helping to keep this opportunity alive for the next artist.

As always, this event is FREE and open to the public.

What: Artist Showcase with Jennifer Koch
Where: 40 Sears Ln in Burlington
When: Friday, August 7th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm

RSVP Today > https://bit.ly/artShowJenKoch

⚡This is what seeing a project through looks like!⚡

Rae Kantrowitz is the creator of Chord Blocks, a music learning product that turns theory into something you can hold in your hands. You stack blocks to form chords, create sequences of chords to make songs, and through it all build an understanding of how harmony works… One block at a time!

Building a product like this takes skills in electronics, audio, 3D design, and more, and Rae has tackled it the way real hardware gets made… Prototype > Test > Learn > Iterate > Repeat. Initially she proved the concept with off-the-shelf components. But recently she has started designing her own custom PCBs and assembling the components using reflow soldering.

Another member, Paul Shepherd of Rugged MicroPower, helped guide her through the process of applying solder paste, positioning components, and cooking the boards in our reflow oven.

Rae doesn't come from a software or engineering background. What she has is persistence, curiosity, and zero hesitation about asking questions. That combination has carried her further than credentials ever could, and it should give anyone watching this project real confidence in her ability to deliver.

Generator's growing community of electrical engineers and hardware developers has built a culture where beginners are welcomed, questions are met with generosity instead of condescension, and knowledge gets shared freely. We didn't create that environment. Our members did.

Keep going, Rae! We can’t wait to see Chord Blocks in every school and music classroom out there!
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Rae is a Generator community member and participated in our JumpStart Business Development Bootcamp. You can learn more about JumpStart at www.generatorvt.com/jumpstart and Rae will also be presenting at the Burlington Hardware Meetup happening at Generator on August 6th

⚡Learn The Art Of Knife Making!⚡

Ever wanted to make your own knife... Here's your chance! We just opened up another knife making class by bladesmith Mats Thureson!

The class will happen on Tuesdays over 5 weeks from 5:30-9:30pm, and during the course students will start with a blank piece of steel and learn how to make a functional and potentially beautiful blade with guidance from Mats.

This class will cover:

⚡Safe & efficient use of a knifemaker's tools.
⚡Blade design and geometry
⚡Heat treating high carbon steels
⚡Frame handle construction
⚡Fit and finish techniques
⚡Sharpening

There are only 3 seats available in this course, and one is already taken!

For more info, and to reserve your spot, please visit:
https://app.glueup.com/event/intro-to-knifemaking-the-paring-knife-185858/

Ever wondered how makers actually make money?

Methods & Means is back, and this time we’re trying something new. Instead of individual presentations, we’re pulling together makers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs for an open discussion about the economics of making.

Whether someone creates full-time, on the side, or purely for the love of it, there’s a story there. Our goal is to bring these stories into the open so we can all learn something.

As always, this event is FREE and open to the whole community.

Learn more and RSVP > www.generatorvt.com/methodsandmeans

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What: Methods & Means: Maker Economics
Where: Generator Makerspace
When: Thursday, July 30th
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: Free