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Artisan’s Asylum is a 40,000sf. member supported community makerspace in the heart of Somerville, Massachusetts. Our members put ordinary tools to use to make extraordinary things. We offer tool training, workshops and classes to enable members to bring their ideas to life. We’re home to more than 300 independent creatives from all walks of life, joined by a common love of making cool things.
Artisan's Asylum is not-for-profit organization providing education, tools, workspace, and community to help you make what you imagine.
Lars Hasselblad Torres, Executive Director
Lars is an artist, writer, educator and entrepreneur with a passion for arts-driven economic development. Lars has created and led arts, coworking and makerspaces in Washington, DC and Vermont as well as the state’s Backpacker Guide to creativity. In the fall of 2017, with a grant from the Democracy Fund, Lars traveled 14,000 miles around the country interviewing Americans about the ways our democratic aspirations are represented in the arts.
Prior to joining the Artisan’s Asylum, Lars served as Director of Vermont’s Office of the Creative Economy, Innovation Prize Advisor to the US Agency for International Development, lead designer and head of MIT’s Global Challenge, and director of AmericaSpeaks’ Democracy Lab for innovation and research. Lars was a founding faculty member of the Booker T. Washington Public Charter School for Technical Arts in Washington, DC where he was recognized for excellence in learning design for his combined DC History and Urban Studies curriculum.