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We're forever inspired by the number of maker spaces popping up which offer everything from planting succulents, sewing cushions, trying screen-printing, playing with watercolors, clay sculpting, improv, and on and on.
Take a look at our edit of some of these and as you scroll through this list ask yourself what’s the creative practice that has the potential to make your heart leap (and you may even be nervous to try). Go with that one; reserve a spot at a workshop/class, and see where having a creative practice can take you.
We’ve noticed that post-pandemic many of these spaces offer classes online or at-home kits, so even if somewhere isn’t close to where you live, if there’s something you want to make, there are ways for that to happen whenever you are. We’ve made crochet in our pajamas and showed up with a glass of something to create watercolors at our kitchen tables. Online classes also lend themselves to anyone who doesn’t feel quite ready to practice in public something new they are excited to try or a lost art love they are longing to return to.
We just encourage you to experiment and bring curiosity to this space. Let us know how you get on.
UK
Black Girl Knit Club, London | Blackhorse Workshop, London| Blue Mountain School, London| Bread Ahead, London | Claytime, London | Collingwood Norris, Scotland | Craftivists| Creative Glass Guild, Bristol|The Edinburgh Drawing School, Edinburgh| The Fabled Thread, London |Fabrications, London | Hoopla, London | Hole and Corner, Bruton| Kana Clay Club, London |The Kiln Rooms, London | Kitty’s Kits | Kindred House, Margate | Lavender Print School, London | London Jewellery School, London | Made and Making, Brighton | Makerversity, London | Merchant and Mills, Rye |Ministry of Craft, Manchester | North Street Potters, London| Print Club, London | Pop Up Painting, London | Ray Stitch, London | Sanity Studios, Bath | Skandihus, London| Sonsoles Print Studio, London | Studio Pottery, London | Stitch School, London | Stitch Up, Leeds | Turning Earth, London | We Make, Edinburgh | Wild Life Drawing, London | Wool and the Gang
US
Art and Illustration, Portland | A Verb for Keeping Warm, Oakland | A Workshop of Our Own, Maryland | Alabama Chanin & School of Making, Alabama | Clay on First, Los Angeles | CraftJam, New York | Dusted and Blue, San Francisco | Fancy Tiger Craft, Denver | Gather Here, Boston | Good Dirt, Los Angeles | Hello Stitch, Oakland | Knitty City, New York | Marin Pottery, San Francisco Bay Area | The Pottery Studio, New York | Seattle Yarn, Seattle | Still Life Ceramics, Los Angeles | String Thing Studio, Brooklyn| Sugar House Workshop, Vermont | Urban Glass, New York | Workshop, San Francisco
Worldwide
Little Lane Workshop, Australia | Studio Bagru, India
Online
Nervous to be in public with your creativity, or just want something closer to home? Try: Creative Live | Skillshare
Use these links to build the creative curriculum you need (with no mean arts teachers crushing your dreams) to bring more making into your everyday life. You’ll find more places for discovering your Creativity in our Guide
Btw our heart breaks a little when one of these spaces close: we try to keep our guide as up-to-date as possible but things change, so always check before you travel. Equally, nothing thrills us more than hearing about a new creative space in the world, so let us know when you discover a new one.