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🔹 Participants will learn to be delighted by the possibilities of a potato
🔹 Participants will carve a potato into a new shape
🔹 Participants will laugh
Level Up Your Work Skills
🥔 🍠 The Potato Sculpture Master Class 🍠🥔
This event happened on Wed, Nov 27, 2024
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Overview
149 Lovely Attendees
149 Lovely Attendees
Your Host
Melissa Gedney
Director, Community Partnerships at PBS KIDS.
Washington D.C., DC, USA
I am passionate about supporting spaces where people can connect and create. ✨
About this FieldTrip
Give yourself an hour to change your relationship to a root vegetable. With amateur potato sculptor Melissa Gedney, make space in your day to make something truly weird and laugh with new (spud) buds.
You can expect a brief introduction and tips, a great potato-related playlist to guide a solid amount of work time, and the funniest virtual show and tell you’ve ever participated in.
This is a family friendly event! Please feel free to bring your kids along!…Or just your own playful spirit!
Agenda
What to know or bring
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✔️ Your potato(es)
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✔️ A vegetable peeler (if you have one)
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✔️ A small knife
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✔️ A cutting board
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✔️ Your imagination!
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✔️ Other items that have been helpful in the past for decorating include: peppercorn, fresh herbs, and toothpicks.
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✔️Feel free to get creative and bring other materials if you’d like!
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ANY kind of potato will do!
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A big Yukon gold or russet is my favorite but folks have seen success with all kinds of things, including sweet potatoes, daikon radishes, and apples!
What to expect
Workshop format!
A hands-on session where participants get to build, craft, or create something tangible.
It will be recorded!
The recording will be shared within 24 hours in the follow up email for a 4-day window, and available at the top of this page. Make sure to register for access!
Your Host
Melissa Gedney
Director, Community Partnerships at PBS KIDS.
Washington D.C., DC, USA
About Melissa Gedney
I am passionate about supporting spaces where people can connect and create. ✨
Attendees
Rayshauna Gray
Entrepreneur & Researcher at The Gray Area.
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Founder/CEO at CreativeMornings.
Reeteka Guttigraharam
Student at sreyas institute of engineering & technology.
Isabel Calder
Sr UI/UX Desinger at Bevi.
Trudie Henninger
Tammy Campbell
Jess Wyatt
Associate Director Alumni Engagement at UMBC.
Sisi Recht
Art Director, Visual Artist at Sisi Recht Studio.
Kerry Moore
Communication Strategist at Kindle Communications.
Amy Santis
Art Teacher // Ideator .
Casey Greenleaf
Senior Community Coordinator at CreativeMornings.
Rebecca Cox
Freelance UX Strategist at Design for Wellbeing.
Rebecca Andruszka
Founder/Principal at Do Better Consulting.
Noelle Langston
Experience Designer at Bold Type.
Terri Walton
Sr. Technical Editor/Instructional Designer at Adobe.
Melissa DuShane
Content Strategist at Meaningful SEO.
Jamie Topper
Megan Smith
Freelance Creative.
Maura Danehey
Senior Communications Leader.
Judi Jetson
Chairman & CEO at Local Cloth.
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Show up fully
Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.
Stay curious
Wear your beginner’s hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going!
Celebrate your host
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Support each other
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