Join us for a fun night of creative watercolors with Liz Knight.

The studio will be set up with watercolors and paper ready for you to relax and explore the magic of watercolor. Liz will demonstrate the fundamentals of mixing and layers and then send you off on your own explorations. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects and enjoy the community of painters. We will share encouragement and tips along the way.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Learn the traditional art of hand caning with Mary. Students will learn to create a classic 6 strand design on a pre made wooden stool frame. The 10" x 14" 8inch tall stool will be ready to take home at the end of the class.

Students can choose to stain or finish their stool as they wish at home or come by woodshop open studios to wax seal at MAXT.

This class will cover the basic use of Japanese woodworking tools: saws, chisels, planes and layout tools. We will also cover sharpening with water stones. Each student will be able to experiment with using the various tools after a demonstration of how they work. If you have Japanese hand tools you would like advice on, please bring them to the class.

Paul Tuller has been using Japanese hand tools for woodworking since 1980. Please visit Paul’s website at:  www.paultuller.com to learn more about his background.

Join the incredible Bruce Rosenbaum of ModVic for this flight of fancy. Students will dive into a world of imagination, fusing antique components and modern devices to create a piece straight of Victorian sci-fi.

Over the course of the workshop students will learn steampunk design principals and building techniques to create their own kinetic steampunk vehicle with rider from either an antique loom shuttle (similar to those used at Noone Falls during it’s textiles heyday) or wooden shoe mold. At the end of the workshop students will leave with their own completed sculpture.

About Bruce and ModVic:

ModVic is a Steampunk art and design company started in 2007 by my wife Melanie and myself. Together, we created the first functional Steampunk house in the world.

ModVic repurposes and infuses modern technology and cool gadgets into historic antiques and salvaged objects. We work with clients in the U.S. and internationally to design one-of-a-kind pieces, creatively combining eras and ideas to transform the ordinary into incredible Steampunk functional art.

The Steampunk design process celebrates history through telling the personal stories of individuals, organizations, hotels, bars, restaurants, corporations, museums, brands, and locations by reimagining period artifacts in new and meaningful ways. By repurposing objects, as well as the space around us, we take steps on a path towards re-imagining a better future.

I see Steampunk, the fusion of history + art + technology and adaptive reuse as a beautiful, functional solution to a variety of design challenges. I also believe strongly in achieving a return on “novelty”.

Over the years, our functional art and design business has been prominently featured in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, CNN, Huffington Post, NPR and featured on MTV, A&E, Discovery, HGTV and Netflix among many other local and national media

Interested in working with resin but don't know where to start? Join Kerry from The Tragic Whale to create your own, one of a kind, flower petal tray! You'll learn the basics, including mixing, de-bubbling, and removing sharp edges from the finished piece. At the end of this class, you'll have the skills to continue exploring this medium at home. Dried flower petals will be provided. 

Students will need to pick up their cured work from MAXT in the week following the class.

Join artists Hannah Banana and Sean Flemming for our monthly Artists Support Group. Together in co-creation with MAXT Makerspace, Banana & Sean intend to offer a safe space for artists to reflect, grow, and learn from each other through the power of connection. Each meeting will have a theme for inspiring discussion.

Bring your honest, unfiltered life and a notepad. Tea and coffee will be provided.

Join Hannah Banana for a workshop on mastering spray paint & mixed media techniques. Create big, expressive art using easy to source hardware store spray paints and wood panels.

You will create a unique mixed media piece while learning more about the spray paint medium using stencils, layering and a dry brush method.

Join fiber artist Devin Donohue for this fantastic fall dive into felting. Learn how to shape fiber in this great introductory class to the world of felt sculpture.

This block printing workshop is a hands-on creative experience where participants learn the art of relief printing. Using linoleum or rubber blocks, attendees carve intricate designs, ink their creations, and press them onto paper blanks to produce stunning printed greeting cards. This workshop typically covers essential techniques such as design transfer, carving methods, inking processes, and printing variations. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, lino printing offers a unique way to explore texture, pattern, and composition. Expect a relaxed yet engaging environment where creativity flows and each participant leaves with their own handmade block and prints!

A wonderful introduction to woodturning and using green wood, this is a perfect introductory class. Bryan will take students through the first steps of safety and use of the wood lathe including tool sharpening and blank preparation. Then students will be guided through turning a bowl with a single gouge using green wood, to produce a beautiful bowl that will naturally change shape into a softened organic form as it dries.

Learn the traditional craft of pine needle baskets with Bridgit. Coiled baskets have a long history in North America with pine needles featuring heavily in indigenous basketry.

Students will learn how to prepare pine needles for working, how to create the coils and sew a small 4" diameter decorative basket with a wooden base.

Create your own amazing miniature world with Sean of Gluckspilz Gifts, his whimsical work is instantly recognizable from galleries and fairs around the region - now you can learn the process!

Participants will learn how Sean forms ideas for his creations foraging in the woods around Noone Falls and Stoddard, NH. Sean will explain how he can sometimes visualize a completed piece from a simple shape or texture in nature that captures his attention. 

Participants will take home a small fairy house that they will complete at the workshop with Sean's step-by-step instruction and guidance. All materials and supplies will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring foraged treasures with them to class.

About the Artist

Sean is a painter and sculptor and has been an artist since early childhood. Sean has always loved being outdoors, playing in nature, and building castles with his wooden blocks on rainy days.

He received a gift of a centerpiece made from moss, twigs, and mushrooms as a young boy. Perhaps this event was a serendipitous foreshadowing of Sean's life-long interest and love of all things fungi. It’s not surprising that mushrooms are an integral part of his work.

The magical mushroom, amanita muscaria, with its colorful red cap peppered with white dots, is common in fairy tales and children’s books. It often represents the passage from the ordinary to the magical or from the known into the unknown. Sean chose the German name for amanita muscaria, Glückspilz (Lucky Mushroom), for his Art Business Name.

Sean is grateful and honored to share his love of nature and art with you.

Come and join local artist Hannah Banana and MAXT staff for a fun filled night of community art!

We'll have a host of art materials to share and we encourage you to bring your own. Create art to keep, give or share something you've created. Its a night of free expression for all ages.

This is a FREE event.

Join us for a celebration of creativity at MAXT. We're eager to show off everything that's new at your community Makerspace!

Tours and Demos including new equipment

Live and interactive mural painting with Hannah Banana

All our regular Art Jam materials and fun - create with us.

Info on all our fall programs, come and see what you can make.

Free laser engraving on Bruuuuuuuce - our new Boss laser cutter. Bring your chopping boards, phone cases, whatever and we'll engrave a simple design for you (subject to time and laser compatibility of material)

Inaugural board game club meeting at 7p - help us create a new independent club!

Plus light refreshments.

Take those family photo books to the next level with Katie Hugh.

Bring some photographs and other paper memories and learn how create your own special memory book. Using paper cutting, folding and pop up techniques, create your own interactive book to explore and treasure. This class also includes basic book binding skills, you'll be making custom books from the covers up!

We will have paper cutters, folders etc for use during class, students are welcoming to bring their own tools if they have ones they prefer.

In this one day workshop, students will make a silver ring band out of wire or sheet metal, and then they will make a bezel to set a cabochon stone. The bezel will then be soldered to the ring, a cabochon stone will be set, and the finished ring will be polished and ready for you to wear and enjoy

This class has a materials fee payable to the instructor at the class:

The instructor will supply silver wire and sheet, plus cabochon stones of assorted sizes for students to purchase. The estimated cost of materials ranges from $10 to $50, depending on the cost of materials you use.

Join Eric for a deep dive into chainmail in this day long course. Students will learn the basic of making chainmail fabric in the process of creating a drawstring bag, perfect for dice as a coin purse or for other small items.

The piece is based around European 4-1 chainmail weave, one of the most versatile weaves for creating fabric and the classic look seen in Hollywood movies! We'll talk about design, materials selection and construction. Students will learn how to create expanding circles and making three dimensional shapes..

All materials are provided and students will learn all the skills required in the class. Depending on your pace some additional time at home (pliers not included) or open work time at MAXT using our tools may be required.

Design and create a unique stamped copper cuff!  This workshop is suitable for beginners and those more familiar with making metal jewelry.  You will learn how to prepare the metal ( cutting, shaping and filing.)  Next , embellish the metal piece using metal stamps.  We will learn and practice stamping techniques.  Finally, you will choose stamps and design your bracelet and stamp your piece. ( the fun part!)  Options for oxidizing and highlighting will be demonstrated.  Finally the piece will be formed into a cuff on a mandrel.  Voila!  you are now ready to treat your wrist to your creation!

Materials and tools will be provided.  If you have your own metal stamps, feel free to bring them.

The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. These patterns are called “tangles”. Tangles are created with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs. Zero artistic talent is required! If you can write your name, you can do Zentangle.

Besides being an easy, accessible way to create art, many people have discovered a meditative relaxation, improved focus, creativity they thought they never had - I think you should join us. You’ll be surprised at what you can do!

Create your own 30x40 mixed media Wave Art on Canvas with Hannah Banana!

In this workshop, we will explore Hannah Banana's favorite mixed media techniques & mediums while participants create their very own masterpiece.


From light washes to stencils, paint markers, heavy texture paints, even glitter and glow in the dark materials for the adventurous - you will get to explore and unleash your creativity on a large scale canvas.


This workshop will be 6hrs with a 30minute break for lunch whilst our first layers of paints dry.

Learn the basics of blacksmithing with Alex Silverman in this afternoon class. Students will create a coat hook and learn the fundamentals skills required to dive further into the craft. This is a great class to learn the basic setup of a forge, with Alex's basic portable propane forge setup and simple hammer, tongs and anvil.

Alex is a full time bladesmith and previous competitor on History Channel's 'Forged in Fire'

Students must wear all natural fiber clothing and closed toe leather shoes for this class.