The Curious Crafters & Makers

Bring out the hot glue guns, rhinestones, paint, Arduino boards, yarn, beads, wood, clay... whatever you love making with... and come make something with us.

Curious Crafters & Makers is a community for all of us who like working with our hands in New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, and the metro area. Bring the project you have been meaning to finish, the one you are stuck on, or the one you have not started yet. Sit next to someone working on something completely different. Ask how they did that. That is usually where the good stuff starts.

What we do together

• Bring your own craft sessions, where everybody works on their own thing side by side
• Material and tool swaps, because every maker has a closet of supplies waiting for a better home. [Note from Vanessa: we have not done the swap yet. JPL has a twice-yearly Craft Share.]
• Group classes, where someone shares a skill and the rest of us learn it together. [Note from Vanessa: we have not done this yet either, but it's definitely possible — as are art walks, etc.]

Beginners, lifelong makers, people who just bought their first skein of yarn, and people with a garage full of power tools are all welcome. We gather around the Curious Code — respect beats being right, listen first, questions before conclusions. And nobody's work gets graded here.

Curious Crafters & Makers is part of the Curious family of gatherings from Just Love – Greater New Orleans. Our group of crafters and makers was started by a maker who built something worth keeping, and we are grateful to carry it forward.

Come make something with us.