MILWAUKEE — If you’re looking to try out a new craft, you’ll probably find the tools at the Milwaukee Makerspace.
“The Milwaukee Makerspace is somewhere between a community center and a giant playground of tools,” says President Timothy Campbell.
Timothy’s medium of choice has been recreation Daleks from Doctor Who.
“It gave me a place to sink my teeth into making things and expressing myself in a way that I didn’t have before,” he says.
But a big part of what Timothy and his colleagues are trying to make at the Makerspace is connection.
“The Makerspace is a community of people who like to build stuff, like to invent stuff, like to hang out and co-create and bring new into the world from their heads and their hands,” he says.
Chris Saunders, a glassworker, says he felt that community draw when he talked about his work at his very first meeting.
“He asked what kind of…