The Joinery is a premium craft experience with the mission to grow the craft of woodworking and making. Unlike most maker spaces, The Joinery is owned and staffed with experts who maintain the facility and machinery. We offer quality educational experiences and work to create an environment to build a community of crafters.
Experience
Established by friends Steven Ricks and Gary Bewick out of a desire to find the space, connections, and tools they needed for a project but could not always access.
Steven’s 30 years of woodworking experience with a master’s certificate in woodworking and Gary’s 40 years in business as a co-owner of ETC, Inc. created a partnership of collaboration that is The Joinery.
Objectives
- Become the gathering space for skilled craftspeople and people new to the art and craft of woodworking within the Middleton/Madison and the surrounding areas.
- Offer a quality learning experience to all of our members.
- Offer quality, well-maintained tools and machinery, as well as new technology that affords our members to try new techniques.
- To offer scholarships to students and others to experience the world of creating something of their own using new skills, advanced techniques and tools, and the resources of skilled craftspeople to collaborate.
