January 12, 2021 Dear Parents/Guardians and Tinkerers, Welcome to In-Person Classes at reDiscover Center for 2021! We are thrilled that you’ll be joining us. Your child is going to have an opportunity to exercise creative genius and apply it to art, engineering, and design challenges. This guide will help answer some common questions and...
Author: Amy Bauer
Meet the Facilitators: Amara Leipzig
Amara Leipzig is a Lead Facilitator, working at reDiscover Center since the beginning of 2019. They are an artist and educator with 6 years of teaching experience, working with kids from ages 5 to 65. Their artwork largely focuses on turning reclaimed materials into functional art objects via weaving and woodworking as Forgotten Hand Studio....
Spectrum News 11
reDisccover Tinkering Camp was featured on Spectrum News 1! Check out the segment here! REGISTER NOW for camps and classes!
Meet the Facilitators – Frank Wuts Volunteer Extraordinaire
Frank has volunteered with reDiscover Center since 2015. Frank is a retired entrepreneur and engineer with extensive volunteering experience working directly with at-risk youth through organizations including 826LA, Trash for Teaching, and Walk with Sally. Frank volunteers 35+ hours per week during the Tinkering Camp season as a camp facilitator and specialist in design thinking...
Meet the Interns: Natalie Guerra
Natalie Guerra is originally from Santa Barbara, CA but has been a Los Angeles resident for over 7 years. She is currently finishing the bachelor program with a major in Psychology, at Antioch University of Los Angeles. She is also starting the Masters program in April to be a Clinical Psychologist. Natalie wants to work...
Meet the Interns: Allie Carr
Allie Carr is a senior art history major at Loyola Marymount University. She is the newest intern at reDiscover Center starting January 2020. Allie grew up in San Diego with a passion for the arts. She attended art classes and camps in the summer, and soon fell in love with art education. Allie is passionate...
Meet Volunteers: Alexa Jabbour & Catherine Murray
Reflections upon volunteering for reDiscover Center. "I have learned about new uses for trash materials such as cardboard, plastic containers, and miscellaneous metal pieces. During a few sessions, kids would come to the ReDiscover center with their parents and were so excited to build artwork out of sustainable materials. This community service has taught me...
Meet the Facilitators: Isabella Granados
Isabella is one of our newest facilitators here at reDiscover! She helps teach camp, after school and homeschool classes. Isabella was born and raised in East LA and has been a part of community art spaces from the young age of 12. She studied Fine Arts & Arts Education as an undergrad at UCLA and...
Rentals
Meet Marci Javril, a renter and volunteer extraordinaire at reDiscover Center! When Marci is not tirelessly promoting reDiscover Center she teaches a series of classes on head massages by renting the front studio space. Thank you Marci! reDiscover has many evening and some day time rental space available throughout the year. Weekend and weekday evenings plus some mornings....
Save This Place for Me
"Save This Place for Me" Nature, Art, Film, Spoken Word Project 12 week class Fall-Winter 2018 Make New Friends! Create art that inspires others to Take Action for the Earth! Inspire lawmakers to Protect our Air, Soil, Water, Trees and ALL Species! Fall 2018-Winter 2019 Class - Exhibition Save This Place for Me is a...