about

I’m Taylor Caputo, an artist, designer, educator, and creative technologist whose work explores how making can be a tool for creative expression, learning, experimentation, and innovation.

My background is is grounded in art, jewelry, and object-making, with a practice that has always moved between traditional craft and emerging technologies. I’m interested in the relationship between the handmade and the digitalusing processes like casting, metalsmithing, digital fabrication, 3D modeling, and increasingly artificial intelligence to explore new ways of designing and making physical objects. Material curiosity continues to shape how I approach both my own creative work and the way I teach.

I currently lead the Engineering Studios @ Venture Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where I work across design, engineering, art, and entrepreneurship to create spaces, programs, and experiences that help people turn ideas into tangible things. My practice moves fluidly between creative work, teaching, technology, fabrication, and strategy—from developing new courses and experimental making processes to thinking about how physical spaces and emerging tools can foster more interdisciplinary forms of creativity and entrepreneurship.

Across all of my work, I’m interested in enabling curiosity: spaces where people feel comfortable experimenting, learning unfamiliar tools, and discovering what they’re capable of making. I believe the future of art, design, and engineering will be shaped not only by new technologies, but by how thoughtfully and creatively we choose to use them.