Participants will learn to make speaker cabinets from everyday objects to explore the variety of tones made by different materials.

In this class we will:

• Turn trash and scrap materials into speaker cabinets

• Learn how to power audio components

• Disassemble and tinker with old speakers

• Explore materials around the shop (or bring found materials to try out)

• Each make a speaker to take home

This class is open to all ages and skill levels.

Nelly Kate (s/h) is a studio artist with an expanded practice in sound, expressing its material power through tones, tapes, water, wood, metal, and fiber. Over the past decade, Nelly has experienced fluctuations between late-deafness and hearing. This informs her creative research and practice in slowness, the awkwardness of inclusion, collaboration, and repetition.

Her work takes the form of installation, performance, and print. She creates spaces for public imagination and healing, often working with trash, reclaimed, and repurposed materials.

Nelly Kate holds an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in English from James Madison University. She is currently a creative director at MIT Spatial Sound Lab, working across the unceded lands of Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Wampanoag nations.

This program is presented in partnership with the Boston Public Art Triennial.