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Non-Theater CNC Work
GWU
At Olney Theatre, I learned to program and operate a 4x8 ShopBot CNC. At George Washington University (GWU), the CNC was a 5x10 Laguna Smartshop II. I've used a CNC for a variety of projects, for the theater program (which can be found under Previous Work), other pursuits for the Corcoran School of Arts & Design (CSAD) at GWU, and personal projects.
Corcoran School of Art & Design - CIAR 6825 Projects
Andrea Dietz is an Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies for Exhibition Design at CSAD. In the fall semesters of 2022 and 2023, she and I worked together with her students in her CIAR 6825: Advanced Visual Communications class. The project involved students going to the Heurich House and taking 3D scans of something in the museum that caught their eye. They they took their scans into Rhino to manipulate into something that could be milled on the CNC in a very dense foam. I was involved with them from the start, guiding them on ideas that would be more successful on the mill over others, and constantly communicating with them before I put their piece on the mill, modeling a shop/client relationship. A playlist of videos of the mill working on these pieces can be found here.
Photo Credits: Myself
Work pictured belongs to Ilayda Sakalli, Diana Galvez,
Tegan Smith, Aytan Muradzade, Danielle Hess, Xichen Cao,
Abbie McGrann, Vy Huynh, and Jojo Chen
Corcoran School of Art & Design at GWU - Materials Library
My colleague Daniel Jonas (3D Instructional Technologist of Wood & Metal) reached out to me about a project that Scott Jones (Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture) had approached him with. Scott was establishing a relationship between GWU and Material ConneXion, which collects and is able to disseminate material libraries to companies and universities. Daniel and Scott worked together to come up with a design for a mobile library for the Corcoran, and Daniel and I worked together to get files ready for milling on the CNC, as making eight of these rolling racks was going to be easier with the rapid machining the CNC provides. A short video of me cutting a sheet of material for this can be found here.
Photo Credits: Myself
Shields for Labyrinth Games & Puzzles
Labyrinth Games & Puzzles is a small, woman owned business in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of DC. I have been a patron of owner Kathleen Donahue's store for nigh on a decade. Kathleen's dedication to her customer base and her neighborhood are second to none. When they did a rebranding in the fall of 2022, I asked for the files of their new shield designs without telling them what I had planned. I presented these to Kathleen right before Christmas of 2022, and they were hung in March of 2023.
Photo Credits: Myself, Labyrinth Games and Puzzles
Christmas Gifts 2023
I had started playing around with photo v-carving, and decided that the best use of this was making Christmas gifts for my friends of their cats (and my own!)
Photo Credits: Myself
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