Project Threadways is a 501(c)(3) organization that documents, studies, and interprets history, community, and power through the lens of fashion and textiles.

From raw material to finished goods, we seek to understand the impact of textiles on our community, nation, and world.

In partnership with Alabama Chanin and The School of Making, we connect people, places, and materials through design, making, and education—with cultural heritage, craft preservation, and creative placemaking at the core of our work.

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Worcester Center for Crafts

Founded in 1856, the Worcester Center for Crafts (WCC) is the nation’s oldest nonprofit craft center, dedicated to cultivating creativity and community through the arts. Originally established to provide skills for immigrant women, WCC now offers classes and workshops in ceramics, glass, metals, fiber, printmaking, healing arts, painting, photography, and more for students of all ages and abilities.

Home to the Krikorian Gallery, the Mary and Van Aroian Community Gallery, and the Handcrafted Shop, WCC also supports artists in sharing their work. The craft center hosts signature events such as Hot Night in the City and the Holiday Festival of Crafts, connecting local and national artists with the community.

With its rich history and welcoming spirit, WCC continues to serve as a cultural destination, creative hub, and vital contributor to the New England community.

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We offer private instruction, after school classes and summer camps for kids and adults. Our mission is to pass on and preserve traditional handwork skills like weaving, sewing, knitting, crocheting and needle felting.

At the FiberArt.STUDIO we are passionate about nurturing creativity and providing a supportive environment for creative expression, with a big dose of mindfulness. Since 2016 our studio is a place where both kids and adults can explore traditional and contemporary handwork and fiber arts. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced maker, there is something for everyone to explore and enjoy in our studio in the woods.

Our director Anja Seehrich-Caldwell is also an architect and designer. She comes from a long German family line of makers in the textile trades.
Getting a beginner hooked on yarn and combining traditional techniques with new designs is her passion and skillset.

Phones, glue and glitter are not allowed in the studio. If we can not sew it we do not want it.

Read about Anja Caldwell’s creative journey in the spring issue of Where Women Create Magazine

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The Corning Museum of Glass is an independent, not-for-profit museum dedicated to the exploration and exhibition of glass.

Since its founding in 1951, the museum has grown to steward the world’s most comprehensive and important collection of glass objects, including: contemporary sculptural marvels from artists like Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, and Toots Zynsky; groundbreaking scientific innovations like the 200-inch telescope lens casting; and 35 centuries of glass and glassmaking.

The Museum welcomes over 300,000 annual visitors, offering daily live demonstrations and glassmaking experiences for all ages.

The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass uses state-of-the-art glassmaking spaces to advance glassmaking education and support new ideas, forwarding the world of glass art, and the Rakow Research Library maintains and grows a record of glass history while supporting today’s researchers.

The museum strives in all aspects to achieve its mission of inspiring people to see glass in a new light. 

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Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Floyd Center for the Arts is a vibrant hub for creativity, learning, and community. Established in 1995 on the site of a former 1940s dairy farm, the Center has transformed the historic barn and surrounding buildings into galleries, classrooms, and working studios that serve artists and the public alike. Today, the campus offers exhibitions, workshops, and free community events that bring people together through the arts, including the annual Floyd Living Traditions Festival, which celebrates the region’s rich heritage of art, craft, and music. Through art education for all ages and abilities, scholarships, and a welcoming environment, the Center ensures that everyone has the opportunity to see, learn, and create!

Mission Statement:
The Floyd Center for the Arts connects people through visual arts, handmade craft, and music – honoring living traditions while embracing innovation.

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The Denton Maker Center, a non-profit organization, strives to be the central location for creative making in the greater North Texas region. This is accomplished by providing activities and resources that nurture a community of makers. Activities include workshops (both in-person and online), exhibitions, sales, open studio times, and related special events. Resources include tools/equipment, expertise of personnel, safe workspace, exhibition space, and a retail store. Generation of public interest and appreciation is accomplished through promotion of these activities and resources through personal networking, social media, website, print materials, and shared distribution by aligned institutions.

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The Cowboy Trades Association (CTA) is a coalition of master artisans, cultural advocates, and heritage organizations working to preserve the living traditions of the American West—while building new opportunities for the future.

Our Roots

• Founded in 2023 under the fiscal sponsorship of Vista 360° (Jackson, WY)
• Born from a partnership with the Jackson Hole History Museum
• Created by artisans featured in the inaugural Saddle Up! exhibit

What We Do

• Exhibitions – Touring Saddle Up! Western Handmade Art & Gear to museums and cultural centers, featuring 60+ artisans across Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado
• Education – Hosting hands-on workshops with masters like:
  • Keith Seidel – Saddlemaking (Cody, WY)
  • Christy Sing Robertson – Hatmaking (Jackson, WY)
  • Amy Erickson – Silversmithing (Evanston, WY)
• Preservation & Innovation – Documenting artisan techniques through video and oral histories, and creating new pathways for apprenticeships, entrepreneurship, and rural job growth
• Equity in Opportunity – Supporting apprentices from all walks of life—ranch kids, veterans, recent graduates, and career changers—so that the trades are open to anyone with the passion to learn

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BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) is a regional center for craft on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Our dedicated volunteers and staff provide fun, welcoming spaces where everyone can explore creativity, learn new skills, work with others, and give back to the community.

BARN operates eleven member-run studios spanning woodworking, glass arts, fiber arts, metal fabrication, culinary arts, jewelry making, and more. Since opening our 25,000-square-foot facility in 2017, we’ve grown to serve over 1,400 members with 2,700+ classes and events annually. BARN’s mission centers on growing and inspiring creative community through craft, learning, and service.

Beyond skill-building, BARN members actively contribute to the region through dozens of community service projects—from building furniture for at-risk youth to preparing meals for community events. We believe everyone can be creative, and we offer comprehensive tuition assistance and programming designed to remove barriers to participation. Whether someone is a complete beginner or seasoned artisan, BARN provides the tools, expertise, and supportive community to help creativity flourish.

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Brooklyn Metal Works (BKMW) is a non-ferrous metal art studio that offers professional workspace for the development of art, objects, and jewelry. In addition we offer concept and technique based classes and workshops for all levels of learning. Our exhibition space and artist lecture series promotes artists, designers and makers from the metalsmithing field and beyond. Our studio prioritizes creating a safe and sustainable working and learning environment, complete with a wide inventory of tools and equipment. Responsible studio practices and stewardship of resources are at the core of our vision.

Our collaborative setting is designed to foster exploration, encourage experimentation, and strengthen the knowledge base of all involved. Brooklyn Metal Works promotes and furthers critical dialogue among those who practice, write, and invest time and energy into the field of jewelry and metalsmithing.

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Tucked away in the mountains of western North Carolina, the John C. Campbell Folk School (“the Folk School”) offers weeklong and weekend classes for adults in craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography, writing, and more. Our non-competitive and small-sized classes are offered year-round on a scenic 270-acre campus, attracting students from all over the world. The Folk School transforms lives, bringing people together in a nurturing environment for experiences in learning and community life that spark self-discovery. “I sing behind the plow,” the Folk School’s motto since its founding in 1925, reflects the importance of lifelong learning and growth while finding joy throughout every step of the process.

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Silver River Center for Chair Caning is the nation’s only chair caning school & museum. Operated by David Klingler and Brandy Clements (a 4th generation chair weaver), it has recently re-located to Weaverville, NC just a few miles north of Asheville. During their 15 years in the River Arts District, they wove over 10,000 chairs hand taught hundreds of sessions to aspiring weavers, furniture makers, and those who just want to save their heirloom chair.

They are considered experts in their field and ambassadors of the craft. They teach both in-person and online at the school and on YouTube, as well as on location at craft schools like Arrowmont & John C Campbell Folk School. They travel the country spreading the love of chairs across the land, speaking at museums and craft shows, teaching kids, adults, and anyone who finds themselves in their presence.

Silver River is an Official Education Center of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Their new instructional book, The Woven Chair, published by Blue Hills Press is launching alongside their grand re-opening New Years 2026.

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About the Palo Alto Art Center:
The Palo Alto Art Center is your place to see and make art, activate your creativity, and expand your community. Created by the community, for the community in 1971, the Palo Alto Art Center provides an accessible and welcoming place to engage with art. We engage approximately 150,000 people every year through a diverse range of programs.

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The Sonoran Glass School is a public-access educational center for glass art. Our mission is to actively engage established and emerging artists of all ages and abilities in the glass arts and to teach a full range of glass-working techniques.

Our facility offers four studios for the many types of glass-working including kiln forming, glass blowing, torch working, and coldworking.

We strive to share our passion and knowledge for the glass arts with the public through educational classes, experiences, seminars, and community events.

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Founded in 2001, Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) is a nonprofit, public access glass art school where anyone can take classes, explore the contemporary glass gallery, shop for glass gifts, and watch live glassblowing demonstrations.

Since its opening, PGC has educated nearly half a million individuals, contributed to the ongoing development of the city’s East End, and made Pittsburgh a significant hub in the international studio glass community.

A multimillion-dollar expansion in 2024 nearly doubled its capacity, allowing it to meet the increasing demand for glass programs and studios. PGC continues to cultivate an inclusive and welcoming environment that encourages everyone, from the casually curious to the master artist, to learn, create, and be inspired by glass.

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Fiber Arts on 4th is the hub for loom weaving, spinning, dyeing, basketry, felting, gatherings, workshops, inspiration, and all things fiber arts in New Mexico.

We are dedicated to strengthening the amazing community of fiber artists throughout New Mexico by acting as a hub to connect people in the Albuquerque area to all the other amazing fiber arts programs and projects throughout the state. New Mexico’s history and culture of fiber arts runs very deep, from indigenous people going back thousands of years, to Spanish conquistadors nearly 500 years ago, to today’s vibrant community consisting of all types of fiber artists.

Our campus is 7,500 square feet of buildings on 1.5 acres in beautiful Los Ranchos, NM in Albuquerque’s historic North Valley new the Rio Grande River. We also have a 15 passenger van so we can run excursions out to museum shows, fiber arts sales, guild events, and workshops around the state.

We invite you to visit the Land of Enchantment and stay awhile to learn about it’s rich history in fiber arts, and maybe come take a workshop or do some shopping in our store while you are here!

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