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Our Vision

Tear Cap Workshops is a non-profit, educational organization that aims to build connections between craft and the local environment, between experienced artisans and beginning students, and between artisans of different disciplines. It is our goal to build a craft community, accessible to anyone with a desire to learn, based around Maine resources: wood, stone, metal, and food. The name “Tear Cap” comes from the mountain peak that rises to the north above our facility: a former pine sawmill set on 19 acres of mixed forest and cleared, improved land.

Tear Cap Workshops seeks to unleash creative pursuits in all people through hands-on workshops, classes, educational events, internships and volunteer opportunities. We also hope to nurture the development and success of artists, craftspeople, and small creative businesses by offering affordable, aesthetic and inspiring rental spaces within this community. We aim to build connections between varied creative disciplines —wood, stone, metal and food — all connected by their importance to rural life in Maine. We will help people to connect and learn together to enhance the creative experience, fostering inspiration and creative advancement for people with skill levels from beginner to expert. In the same way that we like to dine at a big table with friends, we will share knowledge and skills as we recapture lost arts and invent new traditions inspired by our rural surroundings. Everyone sitting together, at a table made by a woodworking class, from wood that was felled and twitched out of our forest, eating bread made by a baking class, and soup made from fresh vegetables grown in our garden, will have participated in some part of this essential work, based on hand-made, locally grown, and traditional skills. A community will grow from this sharing just as friendship grows from breaking bread together.

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

  • Bookmaking class: Coptic Bookbinding
    • Participant
      June 25, 2022
      10:00 am - 3:30 pm

    Bookbinding Class coming up Saturday, June 25th! Come make two Coptic-Bound Books: One with Pine Covers and One with Recycled Hardcovers! Learn one of the…

  • 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
    • 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…

  • Our Barns: An Evening Talk with Don Perkins
    • Evening seminar
      June 11, 2022
      5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Join us for a 45-minute seminar showcasing Maine barns with author Don Perkins. This unique talk showcases the different regions of Maine and the different…

  • 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…

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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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