Becky Stern | |
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Born | Florida | January 29, 1985
Education | BFA Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design |
Known for | DIY, crafts, new media |
Becky Stern (born January 29, 1985) is a DIY expert based in New York City. Her work combines basic electronics, textile crafts, and fashion.
From 2007 to 2012 Stern worked as a blogger and senior video producer for MAKE[1] and CRAFT magazines. She produced tutorials and videos about crafts and how to embed electronics in clothes and home goods.[2]
From 2012 to 2016, Stern was the Director of Wearable Electronics at NYC-based Adafruit Industries, where she published weekly video tutorials on do-it-yourself crafts and technology.[3][4][5] She then became Content Creator at Instructables.[6]
Stern holds an adjunct faculty position at School of Visual Arts in New York City.[7] She's a member of the Brooklyn art combine Madagascar Institute and the Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab).[8] Her artwork was featured in F.A.T. Gold: Five Years of Free Art & Technology, a retrospective of F.A.T. Lab's work, at Eyebeam,[9] MU Eindhoven,[10] and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.[11]
Her projects have also shown at the San Francisco Museum of Craft & Folk Art,[12] Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden,[13] and Gizmodo Gallery.[14]