Maddie Jacks, Rebecca Loechler & Adeline Thibeault

Teaches at The Makery

Maddie Jacks
Maddie is a recent mechanical engineering graduate from Cornell with a passion for design and making. While in school, she worked in a startup incubator, where she helped entrepreneurs create physical prototypes using a workshop full of 3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC machines. From building her own tree house when she was 17 to opening a laser-cut earrings shop on Etsy, she has applied her enthusiasm for making and engineering to all sorts of projects. At the Makery, she is excited to be teaching both 3D Making & Modeling and Dream House. In her spare time, Maddie is training for a Half Ironman and plays the French horn.

Rebecca Loechler
Rebecca is a self taught papercutting artist, illustrator, and teacher extraordinaire! A Brookline native, Rebecca has been working in the Brookline Public School system for the past 7 years, first teaching enrichment art, then working as a lead teacher in the Pierce School Extended Day Program. Rebecca published her first book in 2017, a coloring book for kids and adults. She has sold and exhibited her artwork worldwide as a member of the Paper Artist Collective, and frequently collaborates with paper companies on marketing their products. Rebecca has been doing program development and instruction at The Makery for the past year and a half, and is thrilled to be teaching the connection between art, tech, and engineering. In her free time, Rebecca is an avid outdoorswoman, who enjoys hiking, rock climbing and more. She is also a musician and singer, and loves to perform.

Adeline Thibeault
Adeline is a graduate of UMass Dartmouth with her BFA in Textile Design and Fiber Arts. While in school, Adeline learned and developed a wide range of techniques from papermaking to digital pattern making. Although her main focus lies within fibers she is also a lover of the fine arts, art history, and science. In her spare time Adeline loves to read, go for walks in nature, and continues to create for herself. She is a big advocate for sustainability in the textile industry and works toward sharing that knowledge to advocate for a cleaner safer world.