BROOKFIELD — In the craft shops built in a 1913 train station, children in the summer program made baseball bats next to their peers crafting arrows in a glasswork studio.
Walking across a bridge over the Still River, the sounds of hammers hitting iron came from the forgery as more students worked in adjacent ceramics shop set below a technology studio, complete with 3D printer technology.
Founded in 1952 and incorporated in 1954, the 2.5-acre, nonprofit Brookfield Craft Center exists “to teach and preserve the skills of fine craftsmanship, and to enable creativity and personal growth through research and craft education.”
As the arts center seeks to expand, state and local officials are working to reduce the amount of human waste seeping from the property’s failing septic systems into the Still River.
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