Janet Lawson, MFT | April 23, 2013
Ah, the best laid plans of mice, men …and Janet often go astray. I had planned to write a newsletter every week during the month of April but somehow didn’t get to it. April has been an amazing month so far. A group of program mangers from AspIT in Denmark visited Autistry. AspIT is a [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | April 1, 2013
Happy April Fools Day! As with any day at Autistry we are working hard, playing hard, and letting our inner-tricksters roam wild. It is one of our fundamental tenants that each of us creates our life given the materials available. And great lives, not just great projects are being created at Autistry! Highlighting the Saturday [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | December 18, 2012
Ryan is well on his way to finishing his second electric guitar After sanding the maple guitar body until it was as smooth as polished glass and absolutely blemish free, Ryan carefully taped off the parts of the guitar he did not want to paint. Then, using yellow Rit fabric dye mixed with water he [...]
Dan Swearingen | July 4, 2012
The M3 Stuart light tank was developed by the U.S. Army in the 1930′s. It had many mechanical features found on later U.S. Tanks, especially the M4 Sherman medium tank: aircraft style air-cooled rotary engine, VVS suspension. By World War II, although the Stuart was fast and reliable it was under-gunned and lightly armored. Unfortunately [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 16, 2012
We seem to have an outbreak of impromptu hairdressing happening at Autistry lately. First Anna had taken a start at a cool red coloring on her hair. Courtenay and all the other women in the workshop took off for the nearest drugstore and found the color Anna liked best. Anna was thrilled with the [...]
Dan Swearingen | May 23, 2012
Dan Swearingen | May 23, 2012
We had our Spring end-of-semester open house last Sunday, May 20. Our last open house was in December of last year and we have grown quite a bit. We had over 100 friends and family. many of the student projects were on display and there was a table devoted to instruments the students have made [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | January 7, 2012
Fabulous first meeting of the new Autistry Puppet Workshop led by Courtenay Bell and Melissa Diaz-Infante! The students made stick puppets of themselves. Over the next couple of months they will make several types of puppets, build a puppet theater and stage, and write/perform/film several short puppet plays. Lots of fun!
Dan Swearingen | November 5, 2011
Finding her path through art www.Petaluma360.com In Julia Pozsgai’s bedroom is a large purple chair. Though she made it herself out of heavy cardboard, its tall back, exaggerated zig-zag design on the back and feet, and royal purple hue make it look more like a whimsical throne than a large piece of cardboard. [see more] [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 25, 2010
Many of our students have wanted to work on stop-motion animation videos and we encourage these projects. If the student is completely new to film making we usually like to do a quick start-to-finish stop motion production so everyone gets a good feel for the flow from production, editing, render, to YouTube. Here are three [...]
