Andrés Lemus-Spont is a designer, educator, fabricator, and proud child of Mexican immigrants. He teaches art and architecture to youth from kindergarten through high school in various in-school and afterschool programs. He studied architecture at the College of DuPage and Illinois Institute of Technology. Andrés believes strongly in the value of mentoring and does so formally through Big Brothers Big Sisters and informally through apprenticeships for college and early-career designers.
Andrés founded and currently directs the Building Brown Workshop, a design and fabrication studio serving artists, architects, and communities. With Marya Spont-Lemus, Andrés co-founded ¡Anímate! Studio, a shared community arts practice that is a vehicle for playful, intergenerational creative workshops centered around joy and criticality in public space. From 2015-2019 that work took the form of the FrankenToyMobile, a pedal-powered maker space that encourages imagination and curiosity by providing free, hands-on workshops in which youth and adults reuse toys as raw materials to make new creations. Andrés is a founding member of the Mobilize Creative Collaborative.
Profile caption: William Estrada
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FrankenToyMobile
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FrankenToyMobile
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