THE STEAMERY continued from 51 fundraising including Bob Blass, Doug Harden, Don Waltman, Erika Rudd, Wally Bruner, Emily Tracy, and Megan Wagner, among others. Plans for the building include at least six different labs catering to various aspects of the arts, technology, music, and cooking.
Agueda Formoso Mayan brings her passion for pottery, homesteading, and functional arts to the project. When she first toured the building, she says she“ fell in love with the space.” From spacious work areas to easily accessible loading-bay doors, the first floor is well-equipped for the complexities of her proposed ceramics lab, such as sizable kilns and messy clay-smudged floors.
Canning, woodworking, and blacksmithing are among the other arts and activities that the STEAMery would like to host. Brown County and the surrounding communities have a substantial number of skilled professionals
with expertise to showcase and share. As Mayan explained,“ There are so many people in the background that are ready to go.” The STEAMery labs aim to act as an extension of the Career Resource Center’ s offerings by filling gaps in their curriculum. Equipped with a professional-grade kitchen, the STEAMery would be able to provide hospitality training, preparing students for one of Brown County’ s most important industries. The culinary lab would also offer cooking classes and professional rentals. The proposed music lab includes facilities for recording content ranging from music to podcasts. Kenan Rainwater of Rainwater Studios envisages a buildingwide live-streaming system to broadcast the STEAMery’ s classes to remote participants and highlight the facility’ s activities in realtime.
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