Yakima Maker Space started as a tool-lending service out of the back of a van.
Creativity needs space to grow, and in 2013 Yakima Maker Space grew by acquiring a building in downtown Yakima at 16 S. First St.
“YMS is a collective of educators, hobbyists and tinkerers who come together — people who really do believe in the mission statement here: collaborate, educate and create,” said Eve Rich, office administrator at Yakima Maker Space.
The maker space is nonprofit and offers a spot to make almost anything. From ceramics to fiber arts, crocheting, leather work, glassblowing and woodwork, users provide the ideas and materials.