Artisan's Asylum Winter Open Studios

Artisan’s Asylum is holding its third annual Winter Open Studios the first weekend of December. The event is free and open to the public, and families are welcome. The space will be open from 12-6pm on Saturday the 6th and from 12-4pm on Sunday the 7th.
Dozens of makers, engineers, jewelers, crafters, and artists are expected to participate. Visitors will be able to view studios, observe demonstrations, purchase unique artwork, tour facilities, and sign up for classes. They’ll be able to enjoy really weird lamps, even weirder bikes, robots, collages, R2-D2, and other crazy shenanigans. They can take a peek at welding, jewelry, and robotics shops in action.

Artisan’s Asylum, founded in 2010, has burgeoned to 40,000 square feet of warehouse today, making it one of the largest collaborative maker space in the USA. The young non-profit is cited regularly in the press for its innovative business development model and vibrant creative community, most recently in Make, The Boston Globe, and USA Today. It hosts robust facilities for woodworking, welding and metal fabrication, a jewelry nexus, glassworking, electronics, robotics, screen-printing and sewing facilities. A variety of membership types are available, as well as storage and studio rental. The Asylum offers a wide range of classes every month, from bike frame building to woodworking to glass blowing, circuit hacking, jewelry making and more.

The Asylum acts as the umbrella for several smaller collectives—including SCUL, the ‘nerd art bicycle gang;’ CEMI, which promotes digitally based creativity; and New American Public Art, a group developing interactive sculpture for public spaces.