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Our Business Partners

We strive to foster meaningful community building through partnerships with phenomenal organizations and businesses. 

We are so very grateful for all the support from all of our members… we truly couldn’t do it without you!

A big thank you to:

With additional support from:

Central Boiler

Hunting, Dearborn Division

Keiver-Willard Lumber Corporation

Repose Fire Logs


Find out how you could become a business partner today! We rely on community support to make it all happen. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Foundation Support

We are indebted to the foundations who are supporting our educational mission. We thank them for all of their help and encouragement in making hands-on learning opportunities available in Western Maine. We can’t thank them enough for their support.

The Maine Community Foundation

Both the Oxford County Fund and the Giovanella Family Fund of the Maine Community Foundation are supporting our rent-a-bench program in the Community Woodworking Shop space.

The Virgina Hodgkins Somers Foundation

The VHS Foundation is supporting our rent-a-bench program in the Community Woodworking Shop space.

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund

The NEGEF is supporting our efforts to organize meaningful and educational Volunteer Work Days.

The Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust

The Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust is helping fund the new heating system in the Community Woodworking Shop. We are hooking up the wood boiler to the Community Woodworking Shop, supplying a great source of renewable energy and the perfect place to burn all those wood scraps. It has been our dream to make this work ~ and we are so tremendously grateful for this opportunity.

Our member support

Each and every one of our members are so important to us. Our Tear Cap family extends across Western Maine: from Hiram, to Baldwin, Denmark, Porter, Brownfield, Sebago, Bridgton, Parsonsfield, Cornish, Fryeburg; to across the state, from every state in New England, and beyond ~ all together, our members come from 15 states, and counting. We thank each of our members for being part of Tear Cap Workshops. Their support makes our work possible.

Partnerships with Non-profits

We are so grateful for the organizations who have supported and encouraged us, especially through our early years. The advice and collaboration was very needed and appreciated!

A big thank you to Lee Burnett of Forest Works; Art Stevens, our fearless loan officer at CEI (Coastal Enterprise, Inc) and Brian Post of the Stone Trust for all of the help, advice, and encouragement. We are honored to have worked in partnership with you!


A very special thing happens when a community comes together to learn and build together… thank you to everyone who has participated in our events. We appreciate you!

Tear Cap Workshops

Tear Cap Workshops is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community benefit organization. Our mission is to unleash creativity through hands-on learning. We have workshop space for established artisans, and we have emerging opportunities in hands-on craft education. Our facility is a former sawmill, and we are striving to re-purpose this site in a meaningful way.

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Classes

  • Woodworking Class: Make your own Pine Bench
    • Registration - Day 1
      July 12, 2022
      9:00 am - 4:00 pm
    • Registration - Day 2
      July 19, 2022
      9:00 am - 4:00 pm

    Woodworking Class: Make your own Pine Sitting Bench Come learn the basics of joinery with a pine sitting bench. This project focuses on handwork and…

  • Basketmaking Class - Sold out
    • Participant - Workshop
      August 17, 2022
      9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    • Participant - Optional extra time
      August 24, 2022
      9:00 am - 10:00 am

    Basketmaking Class: Coming up Wednesday, August 17th Make your very own handy basket! For utensils, or tools, or dried flower arrangements, this beautiful basket will…

  • Eco Printing on Fabric
    • Participant
      August 20, 2022
      9:30 am - 4:30 pm

    Eco printing Workshop is coming up August 20th! Learn how to print plants on fabric! Eco printing is a process where plant materials are placed…

  • Spoon Carving Workshop
    • Participant
      October 15, 2022
      9:00 am - 4:00 pm

    Join us for a day of hands-on spoon carving! This class will focus on carving techniques so you can continue making spoons and kitchen utensils…

  • Bookmaking class: Coptic Bookbinding
    • Participant
      October 22, 2022
      10:00 am - 3:30 pm

    Bookbinding Class coming up Saturday, October 22nd! Come make two Coptic-Bound Books: One with Pine Covers and One with Recycled Hardcovers! Learn one of the…

  • Open House 2022
    • Participant
      October 1, 2022
      10:00 am - 4:00 pm

    Join us for a fall celebration of Maine craft! Featuring demonstrations, studio and workshop tours, music and great food. Come see the progress at the…

Rent-a-Bench

  • Rent-a-Bench
    • Full Day
      June 30, 2022
      9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    How it Works: You provide the wood (or you can buy it from us) and supplies for your project, and we provide the tools and…

Contact information

Tear Cap Workshops
22 Hampshire Street
Hiram, ME 04041
207-625-3396
info@tearcapworkshops.orgtearcapworkshops.org
Wednesdays & Thursdays, 9 - 5
and by appointment or by chance

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