About the Brookfield Craft Center

Background and Campus

Brookfield Craft Center is recognized as one of the finest professional schools for creative study in America. The Center welcomes those with an interest in creativity and fine craftsmanship to participate without regard to race, religion or national origin.

BCC's Campus and Facilities Brookfield Craft Center is located in Brookfield, Connecticut, ten miles north of Danburyon the banks of the Still River. It contains four colonialvintage buildings on two and a half acres. In addition to administrative offices the campus contains five teaching studios, an exhibition gallery, a retail sales shop, housing for visiting faculty, and picnic areas.

Besides such traditional subjects as ceramics, weaving, metalsmithing, woodworking and stained glass, the Center offers many unique topics including boat building, business skills, home restoration, photography, design theory, and decorative arts techniques. Our workshops are taught by nationally acclaimed visiting artists & craftsmen who come to the Center from across the nation.

To learn more about our beautiful campus and its unique facilities, please click on one of the images to the right.

Our Mission and Vision

Today the mission of Brookfield Craft Center is more important than ever. Our not-for-profit organization was founded in 1954 "to stimulate interest in handmade objects of good design, to act as a clearinghouse for information related to handcrafts and to act as a sales outlet for the encouragement of practicing craftsmen." The Center seeks to carry out this mission through a variety of innovative and progressive educational public service programs open to all without regard to race, gender or religious affiliation.

The Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strives to support creativity, fine design, and quality craftsmanship through a wide variety of educational and retail programs.

The Center offers one of the widest and most varied hands on workshop programs in the nation; providing high quality education for all ages and interest levels. In 1982 Brookfield Craft Center received this state's highest award for excellence in the arts: The Connecticut Arts Award