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Title: |
12 Card Star Construction Art Workshop Stony Brook University Long Island New York |
Sub Title: |
at Wang Center of Stony Brook University, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York |
Date: |
October 28, 2015 |
Time: |
1:00 PM
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Admission: | $10.00 general admission; $5.00 for students and seniors 65 and up includes all materials. The workshop is limited to 50 participants. |
Location: |
Stony Brook University (Wang Center) |
Street Address: |
100 Nicolls Road, Suite 302 |
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Stony Brook, NY 11794 |
Description: |
12 Card Star Construction Art Workshop at Wang Center of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to make an intricate construction from playing cards. The cards are both slotted and folded, so ideas from both modular origami and modular kirigami are involved. Each participant can take home their own unique construction. $10.00 general admission; $5.00 for students and seniors 65 and up includes all materials. The workshop is limited to 50 participants.
The Artist
George W. Hart is a research professor at Stony Brook University and an interdisciplinary sculptor, mathematician, computer scientist and educator. His geometric sculpture is recognized around the world for its mathematical depth and creative use of materials. He is a pioneer in using computer technology and 3D printing in the design and fabrication of sculpture. Examples of his artwork can be seen at major universities, such as M.I.T., U.C. Berkeley, Duke University, Princeton University, and Stony Brook University. He is the associate editor for sculpture of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts and is a co-founder of the Museum of Mathematics. Hart holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT (1977), an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University (1979) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (1987).
Charles B. Wang Center
Founded in 2002 as an Asian and Asian American Cultural Center and an integral component of Long Island's Stony Brook University, the Charles B. Wang Center is dedicated to being the foremost world-class center of Asian and Asian American arts and culture.
The Charles B. Wang Center manifests this commitment by creating, establishing, organizing and documenting programs of the highest caliber that reflect both traditional and contemporary Asian and Asian American cultures and societies. These programs include exhibitions, films, lectures, conferences, performances, and educational discussions. The Charles B. Wang Center also supports scholarship and publications of eminence and intellectual merit.
In public programs that respond to the broad issues of Asian and Asian American arts and culture, the Charles B. Wang Center seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, and between the past and the present.
Central to the Charles B. Wang Center's mission is the encouragement of an ever-deeper understanding and enjoyment of Asian and Asian American arts and culture by diverse local, national and international audiences. These audiences are composed of students, faculty, artists, scholars and general public members of the Stony Brook community that the Center serves. |
Contact: |
631-632-4400 |
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