The Mud Room is a community ceramics studio in SE Portland. We offer membership and workshops for the people of Portland to practice the art ceramics. We believe in inclusivity, accessibility, community, and generally having a good time. We have a warm community of people with a large range of ceramics experience and are always looking to meet new people and help grow the already-thriving ceramics scene in Portland. Please visit the website for more information.
Visit @themudroompdx on Instagram for recent news and studio happenings.
Founded in 2020 by Emily Free Wilson and Matt Wilson. With roots from Helena, Montana, this dynamic couple brought their vision of an inclusive creative place to the Oregon Coast. As potters, they have slowly grown their pottery business Free Ceramics while supporting the arts through classes, events and making art studios available to artists. In Helena, MT they continued their mission to support the arts by converting an old funeral home into an active community art center with private art studios. That experience (and fishing on the Umpqua River) has led them to the incredible old middle school in Gardiner, Oregon.
Visit @oregoncoastschoolofart on Instagram for recent news and studio happenings.
ZORNADO Studio is a classroom space well-equipped with book arts, calligraphy and letterpress equipment and tools, including a Vandercook 3 letterpress, board shear, guillotine cutter, standing book press, nipping presses, dry mount presses, and lots of type. Classes are offered in calligraphy, making books, letterpress printing, experimental printing techniques, paper decoration and animation. Large fenced yard allows outdoor projects and friendly dogs. Proprietor Marilyn Zornado teaches classes, along with former colleagues from OCAC. Craft Lives Here.
East Creek is a 20-acre forest art studio and retreat nestled in Oregon's coastal mountains about 60 miles SW of Portland. Built in 1983, the historic East Creek Anagama wood burning kiln is a forty foot long dragon built into a hillside, breathing flames and decorating over 1,000 pieces per firing with 2400F flames. East Creek plays host to the largest group of wood firing artists in Oregon, including high school, undergraduate and graduate students, community artists, and educators.
Mudshark Studios is dedicated to celebrating the ceramic community through providing designers and artists alike with a local production outlet, supporting burgeoning ceramicists with a place to refine their skills and gain production experience, and sharing our successes with the local and national ceramic community.
Visit @mudsharkstudios on Instagram for recent news and studio happenings.
Ninety Twenty Studios is a place in NE Portland where craft can succeed as we work within robust material practices. The mediums we engage in vary from metalsmithing, woodworking, welding, and large-scale sculpture, to mixed media and digital fabrication processes. The exchange we seek with the community has great potential to be broad as we encourage craft education through workshops and classes.
Visit @ninetytwentystudios on Instagram for recent news and studio happenings.
Hew is a small Portland, Oregon based furniture and small wares company that was founded in 2013. Our work addresses the relationships we form with our constructed environment, the overlap of art, craft, and domestic life. We are aggressively committed to creating everyday objects that enhance our lives through meaningful interaction. Our practice does not negotiate the thinness of styles; rather we seek to mate timeless beauty with timeless utility.
Visit @hewwoodworking on Instagram for recent news and studio happenings.
Community Supporters
The following organizations have pledged their support of Rainmaker Craft Initiative
Portland, Oregon
AOCACA is a creative network that builds community, fosters new learning opportunities and cultivates growth around a shared passion for Craft.
Yucca Valley Material Lab
Yucca Valley, California
Yucca Valley Material Lab is a creative platform comprised of intensive artist residencies, instructional workshops and public event programs.