Our last week at the Octavia Project was busier than ever, and we want to tell you all about it! We welcomed two more guest teachers, artist Miatta Kawinzi and literary agent Sarah Bolling... ... and we got outside to enjoy the summer weather for Field Day, a day organized by the Octavia Project Fellows. The … Continue reading Our Last Week & 2018 Portfolio Showcase!
Another two weeks of building, coding, imagining!
We're more than halfway through Summer 2018 at the Octavia Project, and it's been flying by! These last few weeks have been full of coding, world-building, and art--and we're excited to share it all with you now. Using the program Twine and HTML, we started coding story-based games. We got some help from guest teacher, Brooklyn-based product designer, Amélie Lamont. Then … Continue reading Another two weeks of building, coding, imagining!
The Start of An Amazing Summer!
Welcome to the start of a new summer at the Octavia Project! We're excited to give you a taste of all the art-making, science, writing, and community-building that's happened in our first two weeks! At Orientation, we created our community contract, then made our own journals and inscribed them with personal affirmations (just like Octavia Butler did)! … Continue reading The Start of An Amazing Summer!