Becky Stern

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Becky Stern
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Born (1985-01-29) January 29, 1985 (age 37)
Florida
EducationBFA Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design
Known for DIY, crafts, new media

Becky Stern (born January 29, 1985) is a DIY expert based in New York City. Her work combines basic electronics, textile crafts, and fashion.

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Career

From 2007 to 2012 Stern worked as a blogger and senior video producer for MAKE [1] and CRAFT magazines. She produced tutorials and videos about crafts and how to embed electronics in clothes and home goods. [2]

From 2012 to 2016, Stern was the Director of Wearable Electronics at NYC-based Adafruit Industries, where she published weekly video tutorials on do-it-yourself crafts and technology. [3] [4] [5] She then became Content Creator at Instructables. [6]

Stern holds an adjunct faculty position at School of Visual Arts in New York City. [7] She's a member of the Brooklyn art combine Madagascar Institute and the Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab). [8] Her artwork was featured in F.A.T. Gold: Five Years of Free Art & Technology, a retrospective of F.A.T. Lab's work, at Eyebeam, [9] MU Eindhoven, [10] and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. [11]

Her projects have also shown at the San Francisco Museum of Craft & Folk Art, [12] Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden, [13] and Gizmodo Gallery. [14]

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References

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