The Cranbrook Educational Community provides extroardinary education, encourages creativity and innovation, and values learners of all ages and backgrounds. Cranbrook develops people who will live with purpose and integrity, create with passion, explore with curiosity, and strive for excellence.
Cranbrook is a non-profit, diverse, sustainable community where education is prized, the human spirit is nurtured, and innovation and creativity are valued. Cranbrook challenges minds and transforms lives.
Penland School of Craft is an international center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Penland offers 2-day to 8-week immersive workshops in books, paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking, letterpress, textiles, and wood. The school also offers artists’ residencies, local programs, and a gallery and information center.
Since 1966, Pottery Northwest has served as Seattle’s preeminent non-profit ceramics organization. We promote innovation, arts excellence, and education with a mission of fostering an inclusive community around clay.
Our nationally renowned ceramics studio offers vibrant programming to over 2,000 enrollments a year. Artists from around the world venture to Pottery Northwest in the spirit of artistic dialogue and as a formative step in their careers.