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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 252025, 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.

“The Brookfield Craft Center’s residency sparked new energy and innovative direction into my current body of work while helping to expand its scope. It gave me the freedom to explore new techniques and materials. The extra studio space allowed me to work on large projects while dedicated time in the studio elevated my skills. Overall, this was a truly transformative and invaluable experience, and I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity.”
Scott Calcavecchio
2024 Resident

Please direct questions to our Education Director, Valerie Culbertson, at vculbertson@brookfieldcraft.org

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).