Clubs
What are Clubs?
Our clubs are focused groups where members can come together to explore singular subject matters such as enameling, woodturning, metal art, laser cutting, and more. Each club will be a hub for passionate discussions, collaborative projects, and specialized learning under the guidance of experienced practitioners.
Why Join a Club?
- Specialized Learning: Deepen your skills in a specific area with targeted workshops and sessions.
- Community and Collaboration: Connect with members who share your passion. Learn from each other and inspire new ideas.
- Resources and Support: Gain access to specialized tools, materials, and support specific to your club’s focus.
- Showcase Your Work: Opportunities to display your projects and creations within the Forge and at special events.
How to Get Involved?
Simply look at the list of clubs below and attend a meeting! That’s it!
Looking to Start a New Club?
Let us know via the form at the bottom of the page!
Active Clubs:
Enameling Club
Enameling is a fascinating art form where artists apply powdered glass to metal objects and then fire them to create vibrant, durable coatings. This enameling artists’ club is a community of individuals who share a passion for this craft, exchanging techniques, ideas, and showcasing their work. The club will hold regular meetings, workshops, and exhibitions to share their knowledge and love for the art of enameling.
Photon Artisans Interest Group: Lasers and Lightburn
The Photon Artisans Interest Group is a regular meetup where members unite to explore and share their skills in the art of laser cutting and engraving including:
- different materials like wood, tile, acrylic, glass, and metal
- Use of Lightburn software
- Workflow optimization
- Project development
- Design Software
- …. You decide
The club is collaborative and supportive, encouraging members to inspire each other through their creative projects and help with troubleshooting challenges. All skill levels invited.
Clay Sculpture Club
Welcome to our new Clay Sculpture Club! This club is designed for artists, hobbyists, and anyone interested in exploring the art of clay sculpting. Our club provides a creative and supportive environment where members can work on their projects, share ideas, and learn new techniques.
3D Printing Club
Come and share!
We’ll get into the nitty gritty of using slicers (Bambu and Orca).
Show and tell!
Post processing approaches.
We’ll discuss and implement various techniques of not only slicer settings, but how to use the more advanced features, such as joining, cutting, modifiers (what are those?!?!?), painting, basic modeling IN THE SLICER! plus lots more.
We can also discuss materials; advantages and disadvantages, safety considerations, etc.
Bring your models, ideas, problems, etc.
All things CAD
Offering a meeting space for like minded CAD practitioners to gather. The intent will be a software agnostic approach to show and tell, methods and approaches as well as a group forum for the discussion of designs and solutioning. Open to all skill levels.
The club will offer an opportunity for members to show off their latest designs within their platform of choice, or bring in a completed project!
Ask questions, offer solutions, compare and contrast approaches to problems.
Sandsmiths Society- Sand Casting Jewelry
Welcome to our new sand casting club! This club is for anyone interested in making jewelry with the sand casting technique. A sand casting club where members explore the fascinating world of metal casting using sand molds.
The Brushstroke Collective
RETURNS SEPT 2025 – A painting club somewhat like a book club but for painters! Once a month we meet and bring in our painting (oil, watercolor, acrylic or whatever) that is based on a theme (WATER is the first theme) and talk about it. We’ll talk about the process, experience and give each other feedback and ideas. Then we all agree on a new theme to work on over the month and then work on it over the month.