Locust Projects

🔨🪚 TOOL TIME WITH TOM 🛠️📏

Last week, our LAB Builders got hands-on with the fundamentals during “Tool Time with Tom” led by Locust Projects’ Chief Preparator and Director of Facilities Operations, Tom Mickelson.

From hammers and saws to impact drivers, levels, and tape measures, students learned the basics of working safely and confidently with essential building tools. 📐✏️ They practiced measuring, marking, and making their first cuts on scrap wood before putting their new skills to work building their own self-designed vitrines.

At LAB, learning happens by doing—and Tom’s workshop shows that a few simple tools can go a long way. 💪🪵✨

🚨 LAST CHANCE TO APPLY FOR LAB 2026 🚨

Calling all Miami-Dade high school students interested in art, design, technology, building, making, and creative careers!
Applications for 🎨 LAB 2026: Build for Better 🎨 close MONDAY, JUNE 8 at MIDNIGHT ⏰ application link in bio!

Spend five weeks this summer:
🛠️ Building art from day one
🎨 Working alongside professional artists
🏙️ Visiting artist studios and creative spaces
🤝 Collaborating with other young artists from across Miami
🖼️ Creating and exhibiting new work in Locust Projects’ Main Gallery

And yes — it’s completely FREE.
✨ Free lunch + snacks
✨ Transportation stipends
✨ Art supplies and Builder Bag
✨ Artist-edition T-shirt
✨ Community service hours

LAB is an opportunity to experiment, learn new skills, and bring ambitious ideas to life.

📅 June 15 – July 17, 2026
📍 Locust Projects
⏰ Applications close Monday, June 8 at Midnight

Tag a high school student, teacher, parent, counselor, or young artist who should know about this opportunity! 💥

🎨✨ SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, June 13! ✨🎨

Celebrate Little Haiti Little River Art Days from 12–5pm and spend the afternoon touring the neighborhood’s vibrant art spaces, studios, and creative hubs!

Participating spaces include:


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✨ Free and open to the public, Learn more at lhlrdays.com

From speculative role-play to secret Discord interventions, the final 🥒 𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘 @ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗟𝗟 of the season blurred the boundaries between digital and physical space 💻🎭

For the final DiLL of the 2025–26 season, artist-educator Fereshteh Toosi invited participants to step into speculative realities through live-action role-playing games exploring surveillance, digital systems, and the blurred boundaries between online and offline life. Through improvisation and collective play, the workshop opened up thoughtful conversations about how invisible technologies shape the way we move through the world.

The night concluded with Roxana Barba’s participatory performance secret group chat (beta test), transforming the DiLL into a live social experiment activated through movement, projection, and a secret Discord channel unfolding in real time.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this season to experiment, question, play, and imagine new digital futures together. Presented as part of the Digital Innovation Initiative at Locust Projects. Refreshments courtesy of + .