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HI Makerspace: Spring Festival Couplets (chunlian)

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Fri, February 13, 2026
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
020 Page Hall

Announcing the launch of the Humanities Institute Makerspace! On select afternoons this academic year, 198 Hagerty Hall will be open for drop-in art-making. Led by a rotating list of co-sponsors, the maker space will offer projects and materials in a variety of media, with projects reflecting the content and interests of our centers and other humanities affiliates. New this semester: HI MS will also travel to locations around the Oval with a travelling art studio experience.

Makerspace events are free, open to everyone and welcoming to all. No registration is required- drop in and make art in your own time.

This month: celebrate the Lunar New Year by creating Spring Festival Couplets (chunlian) with brushes, ink and red papers! Practice a cultural tradition that started more than a thousand years ago and is still thriving today. Experience how Chinese calligraphy sees and presents life (shufa)! Light refreshments will be served. Co-hosted with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. 

Remaining dates for SP26 are as follows:

Thursday, March 5: Crepe paper flowers at the Wexner Center for the Arts Community Studio.

Tuesday, March 24: The Thompson Library Brain Break Team will travel to 198 Hagerty Hall. Project TBD.

Friday, April 24: The Wexner Center for the Arts Community Studio will travel to 198 Hagerty. Project TBD.

For more information, or if you are interested in co-hosting an upcoming afternoon makerspace in AU26, email Megan Moriarty, Marketing and Communications Specialist for the Humanities Institute.