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You might know Jen as the maker and mastermind behind large scale public art projects
— an interactive lighted sign for a White House festival, a giant 3D-printed monument to Rosie the Riveter, and a crowd-sourced replica of a space shuttle hatch for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Jen cut her teeth in the maker realm building furniture and teaching workshops at makerspaces in Baltimore, writing tool instruction manuals, and testing digital fabrication machines for Make Magazine.
She relocated to the Bay Area for a gig as prop fabricator on the set of Savage Builds, and went on to work at Adam Savage’s legendary Cave workshop in San Francisco. It was there she became a regular contributor on Tested, building props and dioramas, and documenting the process for their YouTube channel.
Jen has since taught maker workshops all over the country and internationally, joined the event planning teams behind SiliCon and Open Sauce Live, and been featured on the covers of Hackspace and the latest issue of Make (in her towering Marie Antoinette Wig!)
With an arsenal of creative and project management skills, but next to no business experience, Jen launched a small online storefront during the pandemic, designing and manufacturing laser-cut model kits that makers put together themselves.
The shop was a surprising success, but more importantly, helped solidify that what Jen enjoys creating most are not just objects or products, but environments and experiences for participants to engage with and collaborate on.
