My American Dream: Save Old Commercial Architecture for Creative Spaces
By Norma Jaeger Hopcraft
Stonington, CT, has put an old textile mill to excellent use. Artists of all sorts rent creative space within this rambling labyrinth, and people stroll by on Saturday market days and hopefully buy things :) This is an excellent place for start-up businesses and collaboration spaces to thrive.
I would love to see all of America's old mills used in this creative way, to provide a space where innovation and creative work can carry our economy forward.
Here's the Velvet Mill in Stonington, CT, again, and it goes forever in both directions. Lots of room for hideaways and creative spaces!
Here's a potter's creative space within the mill, one of many studios.
She has room for several types of kilns and drying racks.
She's telling me just a bit about her creative process (sorry, I don't remember her name).
Here's a display of some of her lovely work.
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A few more items for sale. How about you? Do you crave to mash clay between your fingers? How about something simple, like fingerpaints? Comment below!
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