Artist-In-Residence Program
Join us at Brookfield Craft Center for a transformative experience that will inspire, challenge and help you grow as an artist. Whether you’re exploring new techniques, expanding your creativity, or simply need time and space to focus, our residency program offers the perfect setting to support your work.
Program benefits are: dedicated space, time for experimentation, and the opportunity to elevate one’s craft.
The Brookfield Craft Center’s Artist-in-Residence program again offers a unique
opportunity for both established and emerging local artists across a range of visual arts and craft media.
The primary goal of our program is to promote the creative process of artists by providing them with the space, time, resources, and a supportive community to develop their work. The program will span two weeks beginning Sunday, August 10, 2025, through Sunday, August 24, 2025. Please note artists applying must be local, as there are no living quarters to offer at this time.
The application will be available online January 25, 2025, with a deadline of April 26, 2025. A $45.00 application fee is required. The two applicants selected will be notified by May 24, 2025.
Please direct questions to our Education Director, Valerie Culbertson, at vculbertson@brookfieldcraft.org
Artists on the Rise – Student Art Show
Call for Artists:
The Brookfield Craft Center is pleased to announce their Call for Artists for the 9th Annual Juried Student Exhibition: Artists on the Rise. This juried show is open to all High School student aged artists in the Greater Danbury area who design and create their own work in any of the following categories: Clay/Ceramic, Digital, Drawing-Mixed Media, Drawing-Single Media, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Sculpture – other than clay/ceramics, Painting-Mixed Media, Painting-Single Media, Printmaking, Photography, Wood, Video.
The Exhibition will run from March 8th – March 30th.
The exhibition will be held both in-person and virtually. Our goal is to have as much artwork for in-person viewing as possible, but if you are unable to get your artwork to us, we will present it as part of the virtual exhibition. Judging for awards will be finalized based on works received in person.
Key Dates:
Entries are due by: Feb. 7, 2025
Notification of acceptance: Feb. 16, 2025 for private school and homeschooled students.
Feb. 18, 2025 for students in public school
Items that will be displayed in the Gallery are due: Feb 26, 2025
Summer Youth Program
Brookfield Craft Center’s Hands-On Summer Youth Program is celebrating its 11th year of inspiring creativity! This program is a great alternative to full-day summer-long education programs offering small class sizes where students receive individual attention in a warm and welcoming environment. Choose from a variety of classes offered in any of our eight studios and explore the joy of crafting.
As You Are: Moments in Time - Student Art Show
New Fiber Artists - Blog Post
The Lynn Tendler Bignell Fiber Studio at Brookfield Craft Center shows no sign of slowing down in 2025. The BCC is already welcoming two new fiber instructors, Becca Barolli and Ryan Scails, to the rich roster of talented craft instructors teaching classes by the Still River.
In 2024, Brookfield Craft Center hosted fiber classes taught by the following instructors: Katie Strano (weaving), Rachel Barclay (sashiko embroidery), Rachel Gerowe (needle-felting), and Karin Mansberg (block-printing). Also teaching fiber classes as new instructors in the community last year were Jai Wilbert (hat-making), Emma Welty (Armenian needlelace, janyak), and Jan Rowell (Dorset buttons).