The HUB NWI, a community makerspace housed in a restored former church in Hebron, has received a $7,500 grant from the Porter County Community Foundation to fund its Community Kiln Arts Initiative. The award allows The HUB NWI to bring a new Janus Ovation dual use kiln online, opening hands-on ceramics, glass fusing, and clay programming to residents across Porter County and the wider Northwest Indiana region. This new kiln expands glass and ceramics access for Northwest Indiana makers.
The Community Kiln Arts Initiative is built around a simple idea: that the equipment and instruction needed to make art shouldn’t be out of reach. With the new kiln, The HUB NWI will be able to offer ceramics workshops, open studio time, and youth and senior programming that previously weren’t possible without dedicated firing capacity.
Founded by Tammie and Barry Hardrick, The HUB NWI occupies more than an acre at 676 W. Division Rd, where a former church has been reimagined as a multi-disciplinary fabrication and arts space. The facility already supports laser engraving, glass fusing, resin work, woodworking, digital fabrication, and a theater stage. The addition of dedicated kiln capacity rounds out the ceramics program and reflects The HUB’s mission of making creative tools and community accessible to everyone.
Programming under the Community Kiln Arts Initiative is expected to begin this summer. Follow the HUB NWI on Facebook, Instagram or watch the website www.thehubnwi.org for details on workshops, open studio hours, and registration.
The HUB NWI is a community makerspace and creative fabrication center in Hebron, Indiana, operated in support of The HUB Creative Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The space provides shared access to equipment, instruction, and community across a wide range of making disciplines, from ceramics and glass to digital fabrication and the performing arts.
The Hub NWi is a Creative Space for Makers And Events, offering resources in the following disciplines:
Digital Media & Tech: 3D printing, Laser Cutting, Electronics, Digital Art Software, Vinyl Printing for Decals and Signs, and electronics programming.
Industrial & Metal Arts: Beginner-friendly welding and metal sculpting, metal cutting, and metal engraving.
Traditional Crafts: Screen printing, wood working, acrylic pouring, glass fusion wall art, and wood cutting.
Ceramics & Glass: Pottery, ceramics, glass fusing, and glass engraving.
The HUB is also an Arts Collective operating on a unified artistic campus, this organization offers intensives and multi-week courses across these areas:
Fine & Visual Arts: Oil painting, watercolor, acrylics, jewelry making, Screen Printing, and Stained Glass.
Fiber Arts: Crochet and boho-chic, wearable art, textile design, knitting, felt macrame, Sewing room with sewing machine, fabrics, and sewing novelties.
Media & Photography: Podcast Studio, mixed-media collaging, and all kinds of cultural arts and combinations of the above disciplines to “make” your own “creation.”
EVENT SPACE – The Hub also has event space, great for Concerts, Theatre, Karaoke, Weddings, Showers, Seminars, Comes complete with lights, stage, sound system, and background images and videos on large screen, tables and chairs. Just walk in, no decorations necessary but optional.
(Located just six miles west of Hwy 2 on Division Rd)
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