UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Pipeline” for more information.

Join us Friday, April 24 join us for a post-show conversation with Kim Smith.

Artist and CEO of Learning Beautiful, Kim Smith, discusses the themes of computational thinking, innovation, and the intersection of art and technology presented in Ada and the Engine.  

Kim Smith is an artist and designer based in Boston, MA. She is the co-founder and CEO of Learning Beautiful, a company creating timeless, Montessori-inspired toys for young children to learn the basics of computer science, without using computers. Learning Beautiful breaks down the foundational and abstract ideas of computational thinking into simple building blocks so that young children can playfully learn about the binary number system, representation, Boolean logic, and algorithms.

In 2017, Kim received a Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a Learning Fellow with the Learning Innovation Fellowship. She has presented at the LEGO Foundation, Early Futures, the American Montessori Society, and the White House.

She holds an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and completed her BFA in Fine Art and Art History from Oregon State University. She was recently selected as a recipient for the Boston Center for the Arts Visual Artist Residency for 2019. From 2007- 2009, she served in the US Peace Corps in rural Zambia as an educator where she led the construction and development of the area’s first preschool.