San Diego Craft Collective

"I had a fantastic stained glass class with Joel! He has a lot of experience and the piece turned out so lovely! Would highly recommend any crafty people to take this class 100%"

"This place is amazing to learn a new hobby or skill and do it with family or friends. Must come here! Me and my husband did a wood working shop where you build your own coffee table and it was amazing. I felt confident in being able to learn on all the wood shop tools including different routers, table saw, compound miter saw, jig saw and hand tools (sanders, drills, ect). The instructors and staff are very knowledgeable, friendly, and amazing teachers. I loved the whole class and I will be coming back for other classes."

"I took a private glass fusion class here. The instructor we had was a little bit odd and slightly rude in the way she spoke with us. Apparently she was a vendor and not part of the studio itself however. It was a really fun class though! My piece didn’t turn out super well the first time and I wasn’t happy with it, but the lovely people of the Craft Collective were happy to fire it again and fix it and I was super thrilled with the results! Definitely will be doing more projects here in the future."

"San Diego Craft Collective is something every city should have! A makerspace where you can learn from professional artisans things that you can't learn from simply watching YouTube tutorials or googling instructions. They have a high standard for their materials and the teachers they hire, and customers leave feeling satisfied at the beauty or functionality of what they've made. Plus learning a new skill really broadens your horizons and opens new doors. What I love most about them is their nonprofit aspect. Bringing the arts to undeserved communities by creating kits to gift to children who normally wouldn't have access to them is really something! The vision of this place is truly unique and well worth supporting."

"This place is amazing. Owned and run by artisans in every sense of the word. My personal experience from taking their Intro to Wood working for Women: I was always intimidated and afraid of the tools and loud "things" in our garage and would head the other way when the hubs was cutting wood or metal. I had no experience in using any of the tools and my fear kept me from getting near those loud, noisy, scary "things". When I heard about this class, I thought, hhmm.. for women, ok, maybe I *can* do this and face my fears, so I signed up. I learned all about the tools used to make all things wood! I learned how they operate, how to adjust them to fit you needs. I learned respect for the tools and marveled at how they performed and did exactly what I wanted them to do. I learned about wood, the cuts, the grains, how to put pieces together. I learned how to sand and scrape - an old style way of smoothing out the grains. The instructors are top notch in their field, they are in fact teachers of woodworking at local colleges and one of the owners is a past president of The Furniture Society. Amazing doesn't even begin to explain. In two days I was instilled with the confidence and very basic knowledge to continue on my own and make other wood THINGS. I went from having never used a table saw to making stuff!"