Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 31, 2006|Volume 34, Number 24

Student 'inventors' will participate
in 'Leonardo Challenge'

Several Yale students are among the area individuals who are flexing their creative muscles for this year's Leonardo Challenge at the Eli Whitney Museum.

"The Rein of Invention" is the theme of this year's event, which challenges participants to find innovative uses for the ubiquitous bead chain, the shiny strand frequently found attached to an I.D. badge.

This is the 12th year that the Eli Whitney Museum has hosted the Leonardo Challenge, which honors the improvisational creativity of Leonardo da Vinci. The annual challenges have engaged over 300 artistans and artists, who have used such common items as clothespins, matches and springs in creative ways.

Three School of Architecture students -- Eron Ashley, Christopher Beardsley and Tim Kirkby -- will be among the Yale affiliates contributing to this year's challenge.

The participants' works will be auctioned on Thursday, April 6, at a fundraising event to support the museum's educational programs. The benefit, to be held 5:30-9 p.m., will feature champagne and inventions from the creative kitchen of Doug Coffin. Tickets are $45 each. For $175, patrons will receive two benefit tickets and will help underwrite a classroom tour and workshop; and for $285, benefactors will receive four benefit tickets and underwrite a week's summer scholarship.

The fruits of the Leonardo Challenge will remain on exhibit for one month at the Eli Whitney Museum, 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden. Call (203) 777-1833 or visit www.eliwhitney.org/leochallenge for more information.

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