Gather with other makers for a friendly and productive evening! Makers Night is a monthly opportunity every third Thursday for anyone interested in craft to work in community in our Berglund Studio Classroom. Bring a project to work on and any tools you need, and be ready to share conversation, tips and questions.

Free; no advanced registration required.

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Join a community of makers in a relaxed virtual setting hosted by ASI staff. Each week, makers share projects, work, experiences, and stories. All crafts and skill levels are welcome. Drop in as often as you like, for as long as you like. Free.

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Join a community of makers in a relaxed virtual setting hosted by ASI staff. Each week, makers share projects, work, experiences, and stories. All crafts and skill levels are welcome. Drop in as often as you like, for as long as you like. Free.

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Join a community of makers in a relaxed virtual setting hosted by ASI staff. Each week, makers share projects, work, experiences, and stories. All crafts and skill levels are welcome. Drop in as often as you like, for as long as you like. Free.

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Join a community of makers in a relaxed virtual setting hosted by ASI staff. Each week, makers share projects, work, experiences, and stories. All crafts and skill levels are welcome. Drop in as often as you like, for as long as you like. Free.

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Join a community of makers in a relaxed virtual setting hosted by ASI staff. Each week, makers share projects, work, experiences, and stories. All crafts and skill levels are welcome. Drop in as often as you like, for as long as you like. Free.

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Gather with other makers for a friendly and productive evening! Makers Night is a monthly opportunity every third Thursday for anyone interested in craft to work in community in our Berglund Studio Classroom. Bring a project to work on and any tools you need, and be ready to share conversation, tips and questions.

FREE; no advanced registration required.

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Looking for a paint with a long history, natural ingredients, and a durable finish? Milk paint, a powdered paint made from milk protein, lime, and natural pigments, is a great choice.

This class will cover basic techniques for mixing, applying, and f inishing milk paint to achieve a desired look and feel, and will make sample tiles for future reference.

Suitable for ages 16+. $125 ($110 ASI Member) + $60 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Join herbalist Gigi Risberg Stafne to learn more about eight common medicinal trees and shrubs common in Nordic folk medicine traditions, and also found in the Upper Midwest.

Participants will have the opportunity to handcraft a tea, tincture, and sauna blend while learning about each tree’s myths, magic, food, shelter, and medicine.

Suitable for ages 14+. $90 ($80 ASI member) + $20 materials fee payable to instructor.

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Gather with other makers for a friendly and productive evening! Makers Night is a monthly opportunity every third Thursday for anyone interested in craft to work in community in our Berglund Studio Classroom.

Bring a project to work on and any tools you need, and be ready to share conversation, tips and questions. FREE

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Every discipline is formed, shaped, and re-formed by the texts that constitute its discourse. Craft history is still a nascent discipline, and the texts that describe its boundaries and centers are both significant and yet still hungry for better company.

Each week in this course, we will discuss a few key texts that have impacted craft history, and point towards what could come next.

The course requires active participation and will be shaped like a friendly, conversational book club.

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In-person and online talk with scholar Lorne Platt on the evolution of skateboarding environments in suburban developments. Platt’s studies focus on urban history, city planning, and cultural geography.

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In-person and online talk by Todd Huber, skateboard historian and founder of the International Skateboarding Hall of Fame on the DIY origins of the skateboard.

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In celebration of National Handmade Day, you are invited to visit one or more of our participating craftspeople on Saturday, April 4 to learn more about NCSW, the work of our artists and craftspeople, and our upcoming workshops.

Each studio will provide a different opportunity, from a small Vermont studio to a larger gathering of artists north of Boston. More details, locations, times, and a complete list of craftspeople are listed on our webstie.

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In this class, we will be weaving on a frame loom!

We will begin the class with some basic breathwork to center ourselves before we begin. You will be taught how to warp a loom as well as some weaving techniques to create beautiful personalized pieces with fibers, beads, and more.

You will then learn how to remove a weaving from a loom and create a wall hanging.

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