Our Vision

Tear Cap Workshops seeks to unleash creative pursuits in all people through hands-on workshops, classes, educational events, internship and volunteer opportunities. We hope to nurture the development and success of artists, craftspeople, and small creative businesses by offering affordable, aesthetic and inspiring rental spaces within our campus. We aim to build community between varied creative disciplines —wood, metal, stone, food — 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 the local forest, eating bread made by a baking class, and soup made from fresh vegetables grown in the 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.