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Brookfield Craft Center
Box 122
Route 25
Brookfield, CT 06804
Ph: (203) 775-4526
Fax: (203) 740-7815
e-mail: brkfldcrft@aol.com
Founded in 1954, the non-profit Brookfield Craft Center has been promoting and
preserving the skills & values of fine craftsmanship through innovative
educational and exhibition programs for over four decades.
Farmington Valley Arts Center
25 Arts Center Lane
Avon, CT 06001
Ph: (860) 678-1867
Fax: (860) 674-1877
E-mail: gallery@ntplx.net
The Farmington Valley Arts Center is a 29-year-old, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing quality education in and through the arts. The Arts Center offers ongoing classes for adults and children, rents studio space and provides career development opportunities for professional artists, and operates two galleries featuring fine craft and fine art on display and for sale. It also conducts outreach programs with central Connecticut schools and social service agencies and offers an intensive summer arts camp.
Guilford Handcraft Center
411 Church St.
Guilford, CT 06437
Ph: (203) 453-5947
e-mail: info@handcraftcenter.org
MAINE
Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts
Box 518
Deer Isle, ME 04627
Ph: (207) 348-2306
E-mail: haystack@haystack-mtn.org
MASSACHUSETTS
Classical Blacksmithing School of Boston
22 Bennett Street
Lynn, MA 01905
Ph: (781) 321-5424
Fax: (781) 321-5424
E-mail: info@hammersmithstudio.com
The Classical Blacksmithing School of Boston offers classes to the beginner who has little to no experience in blacksmithing. Classes are one day so students can get their feet wet and decide if they want to take more clsses. The classes build upon one another taking your experience to the next level. Classes are taught by Master Blacksmith Carl Close Jr. of Hammersmith Studios. Lunch is also included and catered during lunch students and instructors can become aquainted with eachother and this has a family atmosphere which students are very receptive to. Each student leaves with a completed project for that days efforts which gives a feeling of self accomplishment.
Cape
Cod School of Blacksmithing
13 Captain Doane Way
Orleans, MA 02536
Ph: (508) 240-7661
E-mail: rbtsj@aol.com
rbts@msn.com
Interlaken School of Art
Box 1400
Stockbridge, MA 01262
Ph: (413) 298-5252
Fax: (413) 298-0274
Year-round instruction in the visual and tactile arts for children and adults,
beginners and experts.
North
Bennet Street School
39 N. Bennet St.
Boston, MA 02113
Ph: (617) 227-0155
Fax: (617) 227-9292
E-mail: admissions@nbss.org
North Bennet Street School, offers a post-secondary education in craft
training. Full-time courses include bookbinding, cabinet and furniture making,
carpentry, preservation carpentry, jewelry making and repair, locksmithing,
piano technology, and violin making and restoration. Short workshops are also
available.
Fuller Museum of Art
455 Oak St.
Brockton, MA 02301
Ph: (508) 588-6000
Fax: (508) 587-6191
E-mail: kvilliotte@fullermuseum.org
The Fuller Museum of Art is the only museum in New England dedicated to unique
contemporary craft works in glass, metal, wood, ceramic and fiber. In collaboration
with our craft focus, the Fuller Museum School offers craft classes and workshops
year-round. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-5pm.
Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program
5 Clary Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Ph: (413) 268-3101
Fax: (413) 268-3163
E-mail: info@snowfarm.org
Snow Farm is a 50-acre farm nestled in the Berkshire foothills running a wide range of craft programs for teens and adults of all ages, featuring a newly renovated glassblowing studio. Workshops feature glass blowing, flameworking, welded sculpture, ceramics, metalsmithing, fiber arts, woodworking, photography, painting and much more.
The Worcester Center for Crafts
25 Sagamore Rd.
Worchester, MA 01605
Ph: (508) 753-8183
Fax: (508) 797-5626
E-mail:wcc@worcestercraftcenter.org
NEW HAMPSHIRE
TLeague of New Hampshire
Craftsmen
13 Lebanon St.
Hanover, NH 03755
Ph: (603) 643 5384
E-mail: craftstudies@valley.net
The League of NH Craftmens's Hanover location offers classes and workshops in
clay, metalsmithing (jewelry) and fiber (basket making, books arts, paper arts,
surface design, etc.). It is a nonprofit organization committed to fostering
the art of craft; developing future crafts people and offering educational
opportunities to experienced crafts people.
New Hampshire Institute of Art
148 Concord St.
Manchester, NH 03104-4858
Ph.: (603) 623-0313
Fax: (603) 641-1832
The New Hampshire Institute of Art is a private not-for-profit corporation
founded in 1898 for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for a
broad regional audience to learn about and experience the arts. Lifelong
learning, certificate, and BFA programs are available, as well as short
workshops. Courses are offered in numerous craft disciplines including
ceramics, fiber, book arts, jewelery, stained glass, decorative arts.
NEW YORK
The Craft Connection
183 Madison Ave. #416
New York, NY 10016
Ph: (212) 481-9684
Fax: (212) 481-9684
E-mail: ronaraines@earthlink.net
The Craft Connection offers classes in beadwork, sewing, knitting, needlepoint, handbag construction, Precious Metal Clay, and more. We are the only school of its type in the New York City area. Our staff consists of seasoned professionals, all of whom provide an exciting learning experience. Our classes are limited to 10 participants, to insure the best possible creative atmosphere.
Fashion
Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
New York, NY 10001-5992
Ph: (212) 217-7999
E-mail: fitinfo@fitsuny.edu
A college
of art and design, business and technology, part of the State University of New
York.
New
York School of Interior Design
170 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021-5110
(800) 33-NYSID
(212) 472-1500
Fax: (212) 472-3800
E-mail:admissions@nysid.edu
The only college in New York City devoted exclusively to the study of interior
design. More than 700 students enrolled from more than a dozen nations. Free
catalogs are available by contacting the school.
Rochester
Folk Art Guild
1445 Upper Hill Rd.
Middlesex, NY 14507
Ph: (716) 554-3539
Contact: Paul Schliffer at PSchliffer@aol.com
The Rochester Folk Art Guild is a not-for-profit educational crafts
organization. For more than 30 years the guild has been hosting apprenticeship
residencies in the Finger Lakes Region at its farm in Middlesex. The guild's
shops include pottery, weaving, sewing, wooden toys, wooden furniture, graphic
arts, glass, blacksmithing, and basket weaving.
School for American Crafts
Rochester Institute of Technology
James E. Booth Bldg.
73 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623-5603
Ph: (716) 475-2646
Fax: (716) 475-6447
TTY: (716) 475-6334
The goal of the School for American Crafts is to prepare superior,
well-educated experts in arts and crafts for professional careers. Programs in
ceramics and ceramic sculpture, glass, metals, jewelry design, and woodworking
and furniture design.
Women's
Studio Workshop
Box 489
Rosendale, NY 12472
Ph.: (914) 658-9133
Fax: (914) 658-9031
E-mail: wsw@ulster.net
Women's Studio Workshop is a not-for-profit visual arts organization,located in
the Mid Hudson Valley region of New York State. Professional studios include
papermaking, printmaking, photography, book arts, and clay. For over 25 years
WSW has been providing opportunities to artists at various stages of their
careers through internship, fellowship, emerging artist, grant, and residency
programs. During the summer, WSW hosts an intensive class schedule with
instructors from around the world. Visit the Web site for application forms,
guidelines and deadlines.
RHODE ISLAND
(Information currently unavailable.)
VERMONT
Fletcher
Farm School for the Arts and Crafts
611 Route 103 South
Ludlow, VT 05149
Ph: (802) 228-7402
E-mail:info@fletcherfarm.com
Founded in 1947, the commitment of the nonprofit organization is to quality
arts and crafts education, to keep alive old traditions, to teach new
techniques in a Vermont setting at a reasonable cost. More than 150 courses
offered. On-campus lodging and meals are available. Free catalogs are available.
Shelburne Craft School
Box 52
Harbor Rd.
Shelburne, VT 05482
Ph: (802) 985-3648
The mission of the Shelburne Craft School is to promote an educational and
inspirational environment for the creative process in art and craft through
classes, workshops, exhibits, and artists in residence. 1997 marks the 52nd
year of providing classes to the community. The Craft School is a nonprofit
corporation and relies on community support for operating expenses.
Vermont State Craft Center -- Frog Hollow
On the MARKETPLACE
85 Church St.
Burlington, VT
Ph: (802) 863-6458
AT FROG HOLLOW
One Mill St.
Middlebury, VT
Ph: (802) 388-3177
AT THE EQUINOX
Historic Route 7A
Manchester, VT
Ph: (802) 362-3321
Exhibitions of Vermont craft are on display year-round, and each gallery
features one national craft exhibition a year. Each center also offers a full
range of craft classes, demonstrations and hands-on activities for students of
all ages and abilities.
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