Have you ever wanted a place where you can find the tools you need and maybe a group of people that know how to do interesting stuff and have amazing mad skills that you can collaborate with to create new and wonderful things? Yeah…us too!
We want to put together a place like that in Wheat Ridge. A place where technology, tools, teaching, art and collaboration come together and results in creativity, innovation and community. This place is called a makerspace.
Before I jump into all the great things a makerspace can be, let me tell you how we got here.
In 2019, Localworks and the City of Wheat Ridge partnered to complete a preliminary feasibility analysis for an ArtSpace project. ArtSpace is an amazing organization that builds and operates affordable housing for artists. To guide this analysis, a group of local creators and partners was formed and the analysis was undertaken and…