About us
A local resident initially launched Marlborough Makers as a Facebook page to serve as networking platform for locals who enjoy making things.
We hope to grow in volunteers to spur more creative activities and events across the city that work to support local small businesses and crafty individuals.
Did you know that the creative industry has a sizable impact on Massachusetts' economy? Check it here --
We hope to grow in volunteers to spur more creative activities and events across the city that work to support local small businesses and crafty individuals.
Did you know that the creative industry has a sizable impact on Massachusetts' economy? Check it here --
- Arts in Massachusetts Employs 150,000, Generates $1.4 Billion in Income
- Let’s Build Massachusetts By Building the Arts
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WMCT-TV: Marlborough Makers Continue To Expand
Volunteer
Farmers Market: we need volunteers on Tuesdays in the summer to set up the folding tables on the green in Union Square. The tables are located nearby so a car isn't necessary if you have a pair of strong arms. Bonus points if you hang out at our table with our vendors and lend a hand.
Match Makers: Spot a business with bare walls or an empty window? Share our business card with them letting them know a local artist could potentially be available to display work in their venue. Know an artist who makes work and hoards it all to themselves? Share our card and let them know we potentially have local businesses who would love to show their stuff! Contact us for cards and we'll give you a few or share our website or Facebook page.
Digital Media Admin: Help us keep our Facebook page alive by volunteering to be a page administrator. Post local events and creative opportunities. We can show you a handy way to schedule a bundle of posts and how to easily search for events relevant to our page. Add your own pizzaz and contribute your own stuff too!
Change Maker: We have some ideas to design a grant to help start a local mural crew, that we intend to submit to the Massachusetts Cultural Council in October and we'd love your help. We are also working on a longer-scope plan with the MEDC about borrowing a vacant store front for a couple of months to launch a community art gallery, with an emphasis on very-affordable or free events to increase access to the arts for youth and low income communities. Sound interesting? You could be the key in helping to make it happen!
Swag Vending: This website costs $$$ as does the business cards and folding tables we provide to volunteers and collaborators. Help us sustain this volunteer run community project by helping us raise a little bit of funds to keep it going. Like a real little bit. Sticker sales, bake sales, got ideas and extra time? We'd love to hear from you.
The Hostess with the Mostess: Like socializing? We'd love for volunteers to host small low-key gatherings for local creatives to meet each other and just hang out. Want to host a BBQ in your backyard? How about meet with some folks for coffee at a local coffee shop? Interested in organizing a Marlborough Makers Trivia team at a local pub? Post Road Art Center rents studio space for $5 per hour. Think of the possibilities!
Financial Prowess: While altruistic, we acknowledge that a strictly volunteer model can at times be unsustainable. We firmly believe that artists and skilled laborers deserve to be compensated. Are you interested in helping to honor work with wages? We are open to the idea of pursuing grant or fundraising models that compensate artists for their labor in any aspect of these initiatives. Specifically in the initial grant outline of the Vacant Storefront Popup Gallery we want to strive to budget in wages for gallery attendants and design the gallery events as an opportunity for artists to make earnings in sales or as workshop instructors. Low fee or free events, plus opportunities to make earnings not only serve to support youth and low income communities but work to benefit all residents. Lets put our heads together and figure this out!
Match Makers: Spot a business with bare walls or an empty window? Share our business card with them letting them know a local artist could potentially be available to display work in their venue. Know an artist who makes work and hoards it all to themselves? Share our card and let them know we potentially have local businesses who would love to show their stuff! Contact us for cards and we'll give you a few or share our website or Facebook page.
Digital Media Admin: Help us keep our Facebook page alive by volunteering to be a page administrator. Post local events and creative opportunities. We can show you a handy way to schedule a bundle of posts and how to easily search for events relevant to our page. Add your own pizzaz and contribute your own stuff too!
Change Maker: We have some ideas to design a grant to help start a local mural crew, that we intend to submit to the Massachusetts Cultural Council in October and we'd love your help. We are also working on a longer-scope plan with the MEDC about borrowing a vacant store front for a couple of months to launch a community art gallery, with an emphasis on very-affordable or free events to increase access to the arts for youth and low income communities. Sound interesting? You could be the key in helping to make it happen!
Swag Vending: This website costs $$$ as does the business cards and folding tables we provide to volunteers and collaborators. Help us sustain this volunteer run community project by helping us raise a little bit of funds to keep it going. Like a real little bit. Sticker sales, bake sales, got ideas and extra time? We'd love to hear from you.
The Hostess with the Mostess: Like socializing? We'd love for volunteers to host small low-key gatherings for local creatives to meet each other and just hang out. Want to host a BBQ in your backyard? How about meet with some folks for coffee at a local coffee shop? Interested in organizing a Marlborough Makers Trivia team at a local pub? Post Road Art Center rents studio space for $5 per hour. Think of the possibilities!
Financial Prowess: While altruistic, we acknowledge that a strictly volunteer model can at times be unsustainable. We firmly believe that artists and skilled laborers deserve to be compensated. Are you interested in helping to honor work with wages? We are open to the idea of pursuing grant or fundraising models that compensate artists for their labor in any aspect of these initiatives. Specifically in the initial grant outline of the Vacant Storefront Popup Gallery we want to strive to budget in wages for gallery attendants and design the gallery events as an opportunity for artists to make earnings in sales or as workshop instructors. Low fee or free events, plus opportunities to make earnings not only serve to support youth and low income communities but work to benefit all residents. Lets put our heads together and figure this out!
Donate
Vote with your dollar: If you enjoy the arts or appreciate living in a city that has a vibrant and creative community, please consider contributing financially to help make this volunteer work sustainable.
Your donations goes to:
Your donations goes to:
- Website fees
- Folding tables for events
- Business cards for volunteers to help with networking with local small businesses and partners
- Occasional low-cost promotional adds to increase the visibility of events, resources and local opportunities, ie fliers
- Upfront costs of fundraising supplies such as bake sale ingredients, or button pieces for our button machine.