Bruce  Rosenbaum  ~  Quabbin  Art  Association  Guest  Presenter    ~  October  19,  2017    Biography  Bruce  Rosenbaum  has  been  dubbed  the  Steampunk  Guru  by  the  Wall  Street  Journal  and  Steampunk  Evangelist  by  Wired  Magazine.  Bruce's  functional  Steampunk  artwork  has  been  featured  in  the  Boston  Globe,  The  Chicago  Tribune,  The  New  York  Times,  CNN,  NPR  and  featured  on  MTV,  A&E  and  HGTV.    Bruce  and  his  wife  Melanie  recently  purchased  an  1876  Victorian  Church  in  Palmer  MA  to  convert  it  into  their  home,  gallery  and  workshop  space.  The  Rosenbaum's  church  conversion  project  is  being  featured  in  an  upcoming  docuseries  on  Unique  Homes  across  the  world.    Bruce's  company,  ModVic,  works  with  clients  all  across  the  world  to  take  period,  repurposed,  personal  and  meaningful  objects,  and  creatively  infuse  them  with  modern  technology  to  transform  the  ordinary  into  incredible  Steampunk  functional  art.  The  Steampunk  art  and  design  process  celebrates  history,  while  setting  a  path  for  a  reimagined  better  future  -‐-‐  telling  the  personal  stories  of  individuals,  organizations  and  places.    Steampunk  Art  &  Design:  The  Philosophy,  Process  and  Pictures  What  is  Steampunk?  Steampunk  art  and  design  uses  the  core  principles  of  both  STEAM  (Science,  Technology,  Engineering,  ART  and  Math)  and  Victorian-‐era  industrial  style  to  reimagine,  make,  create  (recreate),  and  infuse  a  vision  of  the  

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Future  and  answers  the  question:  "What  would  the  past  look  like  if  the  future  had  happened  sooner?"    In  this  one-‐hour  presentation,  Bruce  Rosenbaum,  who  the  Wall  Street  Journal  dubbed  "The  Guru  of  Steampunk”,  will  bring  you  through  his  inspirations  and  his  own  work  to  show  you  how  he  is  able  to  create  virtual  time  machines  by  fusing  the  past  with  the  present  and  future.      Quabbin  Art  Association  Meeting  Presentation,  October  19,  2017,  at  The  Belchertown  Town  Hall,  2  Jabish  Street,  Belchertown,  Massachusetts    

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