New on Our Website Issue #23 of the Drachen Foundation Kite Journal (Spring 2007) is now online here. Please also check out the DF website for additions of Street/lockhart archive, Kite Sailing Symposium podcasts and more.

DF Study Center Visitor High school art teacher Laura Wright visited the Drachen Foundation Study Center in late September to view art kites and gather material as inspiration for a project she planned to implement in her upper level sculpture class. When they were done with this project, she invited Drachen Staff into the classroom to see how she implemented art kites into her sculpture curriculu …

Featured Archive Item: Bell Tetrahedral Cells & the Bell Tetra Challenge After his description of Bell’s Sable Island kite in the last newsletter, DF Board President Scott Skinner discusses Bell’s tetrahedral cells and announces Drachen’s Bell Tetra Challenge.

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Featured Archive Item: 1890s Korean Kites Korean Kites-Antique to Antic at The Drachen Foundation

Featured Archive Item: Roch Donzella “Monobloc” Replica

Featured Archive Item: Panama Hotel Paper Kite Interviews As DF’s Paper in Flight artists prepare for their residency in Japan, now seems an appropriate moment to showcase interviews with the eight artists who participated in DF’s similar paper kite project, a residency at Seattle’s Panama Hotel in 2003. Part of Drachen’s archive, the interviews are being posted for the fir …

Featured Archive Item: The Blue Hill Box Kite Is a replicate Blue Hill Box kite part of the DF Archive? No. It hangs at the Museum of Science, Boston. But the DF Archive contributed crucially to the kite’s construction, and the experience of Chuck Donaldson illustrates how kite makers can benefit from Drachen’s archive.