Linda hosts the first in a series of kinetic art making sessions as part of Third Thursday Open Studios at the new Artist Alley art colony. On Thursday, Feburary 21, drop in from 5-8pm and try your hand at making a simple cam-driven automaton (art moved by mechanics) out of cardboard and other common materials. Visit other artists working in their studios that night, including Margaret Reed and Carol LaBorie. Free. Artistic and mechanical mastery not needed. For adults, and kids accompanied by an adult.

In The Stringpullers Studio, suite 36 in Artist Alley. Find us through the back entrance of the South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY. Across from Ithaca College.