# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Can We Touch the "Scarab Vase"?: A Story of Failure, Darkness, and Discovery
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Thursday, February 26
6 pm | Hosmer Auditorium
Pay-What-You-Wish Admission


In 1910, Adelaide Robineau spent 1,000 hours on a single vase. She carved into fired porcelain, glazed only the raised edges, and created something that turned the ceramics world on its head. Then she published her methods so others could learn from what she’d discovered. 115 years later, the Everson Museum asked Stephanie and Isaac Budmen to digitize that vase. They thought they knew how. Twelve hours of scanning, months of processing: complete failure.

What followed was a two-year investigation into light, material, and the questions you don’t think to ask when you’re confident. The breakthrough required scanning in total darkness—which shouldn’t have worked at all.

Join the Budmens for the full story of how following curiosity through failure led to the Scarab Vase becoming touchable for the first time in 115 years. Stay after to see, and touch, the result.

 
About the Presenters:

Stephanie Budmen, Co-Founder, Budmen Industries & Think Variant

Isaac Budmen, Co-Founder, Budmen Industries & Think Variant

Stephanie and Isaac Budmen are inventors, designers, educators, and the founders of Budmen Industries and Think Variant. Their work in Applied Curiosity sits at the intersection of advanced fabrication, cultural impact, and inquiry education – from digitizing museum artifacts to manufacturing over 3.5 million face shields during the COVID-19 pandemic to mentoring the next generation of makers. Based in Syracuse, they’ve spent the last decade turning “What if?” into working prototypes, products, installations, and tools. Their practice, which they call Applied Curiosity, treats questions as the starting point for every project, and failure as information rather than defeat.

Stephanie leads with visual thinking and storytelling, finding the narrative thread that connects craft to meaning. Isaac builds the systems and tools that translate ideas into physical form. Together, they ask questions, break things, and figure out what works.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/syracuse/can-we-touch-the-scarab-vase-a-story-of-failure-darkness-and-discovery/200029538034807
- **Event Categories**: art, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 25

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Syracuse
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 401 Harrison St, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13202
- **lat**: 43.0447
- **long**: -76.14697
- **full address**: 401 Harrison St, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13202

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- **organizer**: Everson Museum of Art (https://allevents.in/org/everson-museum-of-art/2541064)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 401 Harrison St, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13202
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Everson Museum of Art
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, storytelling
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