What better place for your kid’s artwork than in a museum? Kids Creation Station, the 3D printing service from media site 3DP4E that transforms doodles into full-color 3D prints, has given children’s artwork the pedestals they deserve. Launched at the end of last year and running until the end of February, “Into the 3rd Dimension” is an exhibit at the Children’s Museum of the Arts that places Kids Creation Station prints alongside 2D artworks from the CMA’s permanent collection to allow patrons to ponder the two forms.
As previously covered on 3DPI, Kids Creation Station renders 2D drawings into 3D printable models, not with automated software, but through the use of an actual designer, who sculpts the piece in Zbrush. The objects are then printed in full-color gypsum through the Zcorp/3D Systems Color Jet Printing process.
Ron Rose, CEO and founder of 3DP4E, said of the exhibit, “3DP4E is about nurturing and expressing creativity and this exhibition presents a fantastic conduit for that. This partnership with CMA—arguably the city’s leading expert in engaging children through artistic endeavor and expression–will empower children and students through design and technology. We provide the technology, CMA makes it fun and educational. We are thrilled to help bring this exciting project to fruition.”
In addition to the exhibition itself, the partners hosted a workshop for young students titled “Experimenting with Dimension”, which not only taught children about 3D printing, but also featured a raffle in which students submitted their own doodles to be transformed into 3D models and printed as sculptures. The winners of the raffle will be announced on February 26th during the exhibit’s closing reception. If you’re in NYC this week, be sure to check out the installation before it’s too late!
