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workshops/events

January 26th – 28th, 2012
Art Hack Day at 319 Scholes, Brooklyn NY
Project: Tactile Video Controller

June 24th – 26th, 2011
Handmade Music Lounge at Solid Sound Music and Arts Festival, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts

May 28th, 2011
Soft Controller and Synthesizer, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Oslo, Norway

April 2nd and 3rd, 2011
Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Arduino, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco

January 5th, 2011
Sarah and Lara Grant: FSP, Dorkbot, New York *PIX!*

September 17th, 2010
Textiles and Electronics, In/Out Festival, New York

September, 2010 and May, 2008
FSP (2010) and Wet Felting 101 (2008), Maker Faire, New York and San Mateo

Bio

Lara Grant is a fashion and textile designer, pattern maker, costume fabricator, seamstress and a teacher. She also builds alternative controllers using soft circuitry and e-textile design and is currently working with Final Frontier Designs redesigning and fabricating pressure garments for spacesuits and spacesuit gloves.

She got her BFA in Fashion and Textile Design in San Francisco at the Academy of Art University and has an MPS from NYU in Interactive Telecommunications with a focus in Wearable Technology.