Meet the Team

Celebrate the end of the school year with Assemble! We hope you will drop in to see student projects from throughout the semester, reflect on your learning through hands-on activities with [...]

Are you interested in joining Assemble’s board? Want to see how we make this all work? Join us on Thursday, November 8th from 7-10 pm to meet existing board members and find out if you want [...]

Read about our staff!     NINA BARBUTO, DIRECTOR Nina’s passion for art, new media and social learning led her to found Assemble, a community space for arts + technology, in 2011. On [...]

Celebrate the end of the school year with Assemble! See student projects from throughout the semester, reflect on your learning through hands-on activities, and meet our teachers! Pizza and [...]

We are so excited to welcome the community to our awesome new home at 4824 Penn Avenue. Our free Community Open House is on August 27 from 1 to 4 pm. Come join us as we welcome everyone to the [...]

There’s a classic joke about working with volunteers, and it goes like this: A man was delivering penguins to the zoo when his van broke down on the highway. A fellow stopped to see if he could [...]

Reason # 1 – We are all Makers at Heart Through my involvement with Assemble, I’ve come to see myself as a Maker.  I had never thought of myself this way before, because I am not a [...]

Reason #2 – There’s a chance I could get better at crafting One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2013 was to become craft-abled.  There aren’t really any encouraging signs [...]

Reason # 3 – Learning is Messy I confess that when I saw Assemble’s Executive Director Nina Barbuto show a slide of her learning space from graduate school at one of the Creative [...]

Reason # 4 – Because I get to work with amazing people Much has been written about the awesomeness of Assemble’s Executive Director Nina Barbuto.  And rightly so, she is the [...]