Upcoming Classes
We don’t have classes from Parts & Crafts available at this time, but here are some similar options you may like:
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Pre-K Clay
Playing with clay encourages experimentation and imagination. Children will explore the wonders of clay while learning the hand building techniques of pinching, coiling and slab. Working in 3 dimensions provides the opportunity for new problem solving skills to develop. Let’s get our hands dirty!
Price: $275View full details -
Creating with Clay
Children will explore the wonderful properties of ceramic clay while developing skills to create three dimensionally. Basic clay hand-building techniques will be taught, including coiling, slab, and pinch-pot. Imagination is encouraged! Students will glaze their sculptures and functional pieces with food-safe glazes. Fired projects will be ready for pick up 2 weeks after last class.
Price: $270View full details
Somerville
577 Somerville Ave
Btwn Beech & Spring Streets
Somerville, Massachusetts 02144
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Description
We’re a makerspace. We’re a school, wait, no, we’re a not-school. We’re a community workshop. We’re a tool library. We’re a summer camp and a place to take classes and a board game club and a space to build stuff and find friends and projects and interesting things going on. We’re not entirely simple, is the point, and, even after running these programs for 5 years, we still have trouble with the ‘elevator pitch.’ Just what are we up to? And how do all of these things seem to relate — what’s the common thread that makes what we do “Parts and Crafts”? To be sure, the simple answer is that Parts and Crafts is whatever Parts and Crafts happens to be doing, and it’s a space for a wide variety of interesting projects to come together and benefit from proximity.
There are common threads:
- democratizing technology/technical competency
- promoting self-direction and autonomous education
- prioritizing economic accessibility
- a commitment to warmth, friendliness, whimsy, and openness which comes from our work with kids but we hope to bring to grown-ups as well.