IMLS Blog: “Making is a human experience”

To celebrate the national Week of Making, IMLS is running a series of blog posts about the maker movement. Here’s a snippet from the week’s final post, in which I had the honor of reflecting about our Michigan Makers work:

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Read the rest here.

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