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HI Makerspace: Spring Semester 2026

December 23, 2025

HI Makerspace: Spring Semester 2026

Humanities Institute MakerSpace

The Humanities Institute Makerspace is on the move! On select afternoons this term, 198 Hagerty Hall will be open for drop-in art-making OR the HI Makerspace will travel to new locations around the Oval. Led by a rotating list of co-sponsors, the maker space will offer projects and materials in a variety of media. 

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

Dates and themes for SP26 are as follows:

Tuesday, February 3: Valentine cards and bookmarks with the Thompson Library Brain Break team at Thompson Library's Ask Us Desk, part of the ongoing "Brain Break" series at OSU Libraries.

Friday, February 13: Celebrate the Lunar New Year by creating Spring Festival Couplets (chunlian) with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures in 020 Page Hall.

Thursday, March 5: Crepe paper flower headbands and garlands at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Tuesday, March 24: The Thompson Library Brain Break Team will travel to 198 Hagerty Hall to make clay and origami mushrooms.

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

For more information, or if your department, office or student group is interested in co-hosting an upcoming afternoon makerspace in AU26, email Megan Moriarty, Marketing and Communications Specialist for the Humanities Institute.