Providing craft workshops from top notch instructors
in the Inland Northwest.
Our Mission
You shouldn’t have to travel across the country to attend a workshop with a top notch craft instructor. Finally, high quality craft education is just down the street.
Good City is a gathering place for people who understand the value of working with your hands. Whether you’re an artist, a craftsman, a homesteader, or something in between, we invite you to connect with like-minded students in one of our workshops or our (future!) full-time programs.
A furniture building program with instruction in turning, carving, marquetry… you name it!
We hope to include instruction in everything from jewelry making to black smithing!
Weaving, leather working, sewing, dyeing… the list goes on!
A studio potting program with instruction in throwing, vessel making, slab-building, casting… and more!
Blown, casted, carved, stained… and everything in between! Get instruction in all things glass.
Gardening, husbandry, preserving, fermenting, etc!
Founder : Chris Proctor
We’re always on the lookout for great instructors to host workshops and teach classes. If you’re interested in teaching in Utah, drop us a line.
We believe that any school is only as good as the people who gather there, whether they’re teachers and staff, students, or supportive members of the community.
Until we can get our full-time programs off the ground, we’ll be hosting workshops in local spaces.
Want to help us with marketing, fundraising, assisting at workshops… or something else? Drop us a line.
Want to be part of the movement? We encourage support through our Podcast’s Patreon account.
You know your craft inside and out, but do you have the chops to teach it? Whether you’re running a craft school, creating a new school, or just ready to teach, this is the podcast for you. On “Teach With Your Hands,” we’ll talk with successful instructors and administrators about how they got where they are, advice on how to start teaching, challenges they're facing now and what's needed from the next generation of teachers and students.
We’re learning everything we can about what it takes to teach and run a modern craft school.
We’ve got one more workshop to announce today. This one is a refinishing workshop being taught by Chris Timm (one of Chris Gochnour’s mentors mentioned in Episode 2 of the Teach With Your Hands podcast.)
We're also ready to announce three new workshops for this summer! Drumroll please!
We’re happy to announce that we’ve got a handful of woodworking and embroidery workshops planned for later this summer! We’re really excited about the topics and instructors, and can’t wait to tell you more.
For some reason, many of us have developed this narrative that learning and doing are separate. First you learn how to do something. Then you do it. But is that really true?
Sometimes when students come to you asking for help, your knee jerk reaction is to solve their problem for them. But sometimes, the better way to handle the situation is to ask them a question, instead. One like, “What do you think?”
Some people have bought into the craft-is-dying story so hard that they can look me, a 24 year old female maker, in the eye and say that millennials don’t care about craft, that traditional knowledge is dying, that in the next 20 years, a table saw in a high school will be an anachronism. Bull crap. Want a different story? Let me tell you one.
In the modern world, where the responsibility to be “right” is becoming easier and easier to hand to a computer, our ability to explore, make connections, and be wrong is going to become more and more important.
One of the major themes of Chris Gochnour’s episode of Teach With Your Hands can be summarized with this sentence: “Deliver a good product.” So, what is a good product?
As of August 31st, 2019, Good City will officially be owned and managed by Mr. Chris Proctor instead of myself.