About the Instructor: Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has taught Studio Art in the Upper Valley at AVA Gallery and Art Center, Craftstudies at Hanover League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, ArtisTree, and Claremont Maker Space with stunning results.  Allison Zito was awarded The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and art educator. In 2019 Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency at The Claremont Maker Space. There she created an art installation addressing the issue of Global Warming and she organized a symposium on site, to inspire positive action within the greater community. Allison created two local public art murals in 2021, one for The Sullivan County Conservation District in Unity and Allison created the Bee and the Monarch Medallions on the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way Pollinator Mural. Making a statement and creating beautiful art as a way to open a conversation that leads to a better world, is the cornerstone of Allison’s career as an artist and art educator. 

Age requirement: Youth and adult (15 years and older)

Class Fees: Free for members and $5 for non-members.

Materials Fee: None

Open up a whole new world by learning how to use the Cricut machines! You will get the basics of the Design Space software to use with any Cricut device. Depending on what you’d like to use it for, learn to do the basics. We will be using the Cricut and different devices and tools.

• Learn about the devices in the Cricut family and the differences between them.
• An introduction to the Design Space software and learning your way around it.
• Setting up the machine to print and printing your design.
• How to weed and transfer your print.
• Discuss different types of vinyl and tools and their uses.

Why wait to learn something new! Join us!

About the Instructor(s): JoAnn has taught a variety of classes for the major craft chain stores plus numerous adult ed classes and at senior centers over the years. She has also created seasonal displays for craft stores. JoAnn created the Welcome signs in the photo by applying vinyl appliques cut with a Cricut to pre-stained pine wood, finished with a top coat of urethane.

Class Fees: $20 members/ $40 non-members

Materials Fee: None

Prerequisite(s): Basic computer skills

Skill Level: Beginner

Age requirement: Youth + Adult (15 years and older)

Learn all the basics of how to operate the Mid-Arm Quilting Machine so you can professionally finish your treasured quilts.  Skills covered include machine parts, inserting a needle , winding a bobbin and inserting the bobbin carriage, threading the machine, thread tension, clamping a quilt in place, and stitching the quilt

The cost of the class includes a follow-up certification which will allow members to use the machine on their own.

About the Instructor(s): 

Allison Zito serves as Shop Lead in the Fibers Department at Claremont MakerSpace. She has been teaching The Mid Arm Quilting Classes for six years.

Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a considerable variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has been teaching studio art in the Upper Valley with excellent results at AVA Gallery, Claremont MakerSpace, CraftStudies at The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and Artistree.

Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency in 2019 at Claremont MakerSpace where she created an art installation and symposium to inspire positive action, addressing the issue of Global Warming. In 2021 Allison Zito created an outdoor mural for The Sullivan County Public Cidery Building. She was part of a team of five artists who created a mural in Lebanon, NH. You can see her Bee and Monarch Medallions in the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way.

Allison Zito was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and her work in arts education.

Class Fees: $45 members/ $60 non-members

Materials Fee: none

Prerequisite(s): none

Skill Level: all levels

Age requirement: adults 18 and older

About the Instructor: Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has taught Studio Art in the Upper Valley at AVA Gallery and Art Center, Craftstudies at Hanover League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, ArtisTree, and Claremont Maker Space with stunning results.  Allison Zito was awarded The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and art educator. In 2019 Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency at The Claremont Maker Space. There she created an art installation addressing the issue of Global Warming and she organized a symposium on site, to inspire positive action within the greater community. Allison created two local public art murals in 2021, one for The Sullivan County Conservation District in Unity and Allison created the Bee and the Monarch Medallions on the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way Pollinator Mural. Making a statement and creating beautiful art as a way to open a conversation that leads to a better world, is the cornerstone of Allison’s career as an artist and art educator.

Age requirement: Youth and adult (15 years and older)

Class Fees: Free for members and $5 for non-members.

Materials Fee: None

Drop in and ask your biking questions, work on your bike, or just hang out with other wrenches. Kids with parent partners encouraged to attend. Come build a bike community in Claremont. We’ll even have the bike wash station running out back.

Instructors:

• Rosanna Lloyd: Hello! My name is Rosanna Lloyd and I love anything on two wheels. I worked as a bike mechanic for 8 years, for 4 of that I travelled the country as a race mechanic for SRAM and Cannondale. I also raced. I’ve also done a little frame building! I love all things fast and downhill. Uphill….not so much these days!
• John Lambert is an avid cyclist, mechanic, maker, DIYer, and all around great volunteer, if it can be fixed, John can fix it.

Class Fees: Free for CMS Members. Non-Member: $5. There will be some tubes / parts available for purchase from the kind folks at The Wheel House.

About the Instructor: Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has taught Studio Art in the Upper Valley at AVA Gallery and Art Center, Craftstudies at Hanover League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, ArtisTree, and Claremont Maker Space with stunning results.  Allison Zito was awarded The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and art educator. In 2019 Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency at The Claremont Maker Space. There she created an art installation addressing the issue of Global Warming and she organized a symposium on site, to inspire positive action within the greater community. Allison created two local public art murals in 2021, one for The Sullivan County Conservation District in Unity and Allison created the Bee and the Monarch Medallions on the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way Pollinator Mural. Making a statement and creating beautiful art as a way to open a conversation that leads to a better world, is the cornerstone of Allison’s career as an artist and art educator.

Age requirement: Youth and adult (15 years and older)

Class Fees: Free for members and $5 for non-members.

Materials Fee: None

Learn how to make a rain water collection barrel and garden irrigation system using well proven techniques.

In this class, the instructor will present in a classroom and hands on in the shop demonstrating how to fabricate a rain water collection system using recycled blue 55 gallon barrels and plastic plumbing pipe and fittings. Instruction will also include estimating system catchment and garden volume needs, proper placement for a gravity feed system and the installation and use of interconnecting plumbing, connecting rain gutter to barrel, venting, foundation for barrel and proper water outlet. Instruction includes connecting the system to irrigation tubing including filter, timer, tubing and irrigation tubing.

The first hour will be classroom instruction and short videos. The remainder will be in the shop modifying a barrel for water catchment and demonstrating how to fabricate and interconnect input and discharge plumbing.

Students will learn how to use a drill and hole saw, how to cut and assemble PVC plumbing pipe, how to calculate system capacity and placement, and how to maintain and winterize a system of their own.

About the Instructor(s): John Lambert has been a member of Claremont MakerSpace since it opened and is a substitute teacher at SRVRTC, the Claremont high school Tech. Center, in the construction trades, plumbing and heating and machine tool programs. He is a former aircraft repairman and instructor and a automotive technician and auto dealer. He lives in Charlestown NH in a home he and his wife built 50 years ago which was off the electric grid for ten years.

Class Fees: $15 members/ $25 non-members

Materials Fee: none

Prerequisite(s): none

Skill Level: all levels

Age requirement: Any age (children under 16 years old must be accompanied by their adult)

Drop in and ask your biking questions, work on your bike, or just hang out with other wrenches. Kids with parent partners encouraged to attend. Come build a bike community in Claremont. We’ll even have the bike wash station running out back.

Instructors:

• Rosanna Lloyd: Hello! My name is Rosanna Lloyd and I love anything on two wheels. I worked as a bike mechanic for 8 years, for 4 of that I travelled the country as a race mechanic for SRAM and Cannondale. I also raced. I’ve also done a little frame building! I love all things fast and downhill. Uphill….not so much these days!
• John Lambert is an avid cyclist, mechanic, maker, DIYer, and all around great volunteer, if it can be fixed, John can fix it.

Class Fees: Free for CMS Members. Non-Member: $5. There will be some tubes / parts available for purchase from the kind folks at The Wheel House.

About the Instructor: Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has taught Studio Art in the Upper Valley at AVA Gallery and Art Center, Craftstudies at Hanover League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, ArtisTree, and Claremont Maker Space with stunning results.  Allison Zito was awarded The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and art educator. In 2019 Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency at The Claremont MakerSpace. There she created an art installation addressing the issue of Global Warming and she organized a symposium on site, to inspire positive action within the greater community. Allison created two local public art murals in 2021, one for The Sullivan County Conservation District in Unity and Allison created the Bee and the Monarch Medallions on the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way Pollinator Mural. Making a statement and creating beautiful art as a way to open a conversation that leads to a better world, is the cornerstone of Allison’s career as an artist and art educator.

Age requirement: Youth and adult (15 years and older)

Class Fees: Free for members and $5 for non-members.

Materials Fee: None

Drop in and ask your biking questions, work on your bike, or just hang out with other wrenches. Kids with parent partners encouraged to attend. Come build a bike community in Claremont. We’ll even have the bike wash station running out back.

Instructors:

• Rosanna Lloyd: Hello! My name is Rosanna Lloyd and I love anything on two wheels. I worked as a bike mechanic for 8 years, for 4 of that I travelled the country as a race mechanic for SRAM and Cannondale. I also raced. I’ve also done a little frame building! I love all things fast and downhill. Uphill….not so much these days!
• John Lambert is an avid cyclist, mechanic, maker, DIYer, and all around great volunteer, if it can be fixed, John can fix it.

Class Fees: Free for CMS Members. Non-Member: $5. There will be some tubes / parts available for purchase from the kind folks at The Wheel House.

Intro to Mid Arm Quilting Machine is offered on Tuesday May 16 from 4:00-6:00pm. It is designed for people looking to learn how to use our mid-arm quilting machine, a Brother Dream Quilter 15. It can be used to quilt all sizes, from baby quilt to king size. Premade clothing can also be fitted onto the frame for quilting! The cost of the class includes a follow-up certification session. Members may use the machine on their own after passing the certification.

About the Instructors: 

Allison Zito serves as Shop Lead in the Fibers Department at Claremont MakerSpace. She has been teaching The Mid Arm Quilting Classes for six years.

Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a considerable variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has been teaching studio art in the Upper Valley with excellent results at AVA Gallery, Claremont MakerSpace, CraftStudies at The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and Artistree.

Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency in 2019 at Claremont MakerSpace where she created an art installation and symposium to inspire positive action, addressing the issue of Global Warming. In 2021 Allison Zito created an outdoor mural for The Sullivan County Public Cidery Building. She was part of a team of five artists who created a mural in Lebanon, NH. You can see her Bee and Monarch Medallions in the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way.

Allison Zito was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and her work in arts education.

Class Fees: $45/member $60/non-member

Materials Fee: none

Age Requirement: Adults only (18 and older)

Skill Level: All levels

Prerequisites: none

Spring is here, and we are all thinking about spending more time outside and in our gardens! Have you thought about enhancing your garden space with metal art?  In this class you will learn how to design and create a piece of scrap metal art to enhance your garden or living space.

*Prerequisite for this class is the Intro to MIG welding class or permission of the instructor. You must come with basic welding skills. Welding skills will NOT be taught in this class.

About the Instructors: 

Jo Ann Clifford is a retired educator turned metal artist. She has been creating metal art for several years at the Claremont Maker Space and in her home studio. She has been an Artist in Residence at CMS and has shown her work regionally. She is inspired by re-imagining metal scrap, saving it from the landfill and giving it a new life through her artwork. She loves to encourage, teach and inspire others to try something new.

Class Fees: $35 members $60 non-members

Materials Fee: $15

Prerequisite: Intro to MIG welding class or permission of the instructor. You must come with basic welding skills. Welding skills will NOT be taught in this class.

Age Requirement: Adults only (18 years and older)

Spring is here, and we are all thinking about spending more time outside and in our gardens! Have you thought about enhancing your garden space with metal art?  In this class you will learn how to design and create a piece of scrap metal art to enhance your garden or living space.

*Prerequisite for this class is the Intro to MIG welding class or permission of the instructor. You must come with basic welding skills. Welding skills will NOT be taught in this class.

About the Instructors: 

Jo Ann Clifford is a retired educator turned metal artist. She has been creating metal art for several years at the Claremont Maker Space and in her home studio. She has been an Artist in Residence at CMS and has shown her work regionally. She is inspired by re-imagining metal scrap, saving it from the landfill and giving it a new life through her artwork. She loves to encourage, teach and inspire others to try something new.

Class Fees: $35 members $60 non-members

Materials Fee: $15

Prerequisite: Intro to MIG welding class or permission of the instructor. You must come with basic welding skills. Welding skills will NOT be taught in this class.

Age Requirement: Adults only (18 years and older)

Spring is here, and we are all thinking about spending more time outside and in our gardens! Have you thought about enhancing your garden space with metal art?  In this class you will learn how to design and create a piece of scrap metal art to enhance your garden or living space.

*Prerequisite for this class is the Intro to MIG welding class or permission of the instructor. You must come with basic welding skills. Welding skills will NOT be taught in this class.

About the Instructors: 

Jo Ann Clifford is a retired educator turned metal artist. She has been creating metal art for several years at the Claremont Maker Space and in her home studio. She has been an Artist in Residence at CMS and has shown her work regionally. She is inspired by re-imagining metal scrap, saving it from the landfill and giving it a new life through her artwork. She loves to encourage, teach and inspire others to try something new.

Class Fees: $35 members $60 non-members

Materials Fee: $15

Prerequisite: Intro to MIG welding class or permission of the instructor. You must come with basic welding skills. Welding skills will NOT be taught in this class.

Age Requirement: Adults only (18 years and older)

This class is intended for the person who thinks they might want to give MIG welding a try. The MIG welder is an easy tool to learn and can take the fear out of getting started. You might want to do a simple home repair or try your hand at repurposing junk metal into garden art. It all becomes possible with some basic MIG welding skills.

What you will learn/do:
. Learn about safety in the metal shop and welding studio
. Learn about MIG welding equipment and materials that can be used with a MIG welder.
. Use the MIG welding equipment to spot weld, draw a bead and join two pieces of metal.
. Evaluate the quality of your welds.

Must provide your own safety glasses, leather work shoes and leather gloves. Welding helmets, protective jackets, face shields and practice materials will be provided. 

About the Instructors: Jo Ann Clifford is a retired educator turned metal artist. She has been teaching students and creating metal art for several years at the Claremont Maker Space and in her home studio. She is a past Artist in Residence at CMS and has shown her work regionally. She loves to use her imagination to repurpose rusty treasures, giving them new life and meaning through art.  She loves to teach, encourage and inspire others to try something new. 

Class Fees: $45/members, $75/non members

Materials Fee: none

Age requirement: Adult (18 and up)

About the Instructor: Allison Zito received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums including The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Allison has decades of teaching experience, having taught a variety of classes at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and at the University of Pennsylvania Morris Arboretum. She has taught Studio Art in the Upper Valley at AVA Gallery and Art Center, Craftstudies at Hanover League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, ArtisTree, and Claremont Maker Space with stunning results.  Allison Zito was awarded The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her work as an artist and art educator. In 2019 Allison was awarded an Artist in Residency at The Claremont Maker Space. There she created an art installation addressing the issue of Global Warming and she organized a symposium on site, to inspire positive action within the greater community. Allison created two local public art murals in 2021, one for The Sullivan County Conservation District in Unity and Allison created the Bee and the Monarch Medallions on the Lebanon Art Tunnel Way Pollinator Mural. Making a statement and creating beautiful art as a way to open a conversation that leads to a better world, is the cornerstone of Allison’s career as an artist and art educator. 

Adults only (18 years and older)

Class Fees: Free for members and $5 for non-members.

Materials Fee: None