You were made to make things.

Our Mission

Make Your Mark is a Wenatchee-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that sponsors arts access for people facing financial and other barriers, including neurodivergent individuals, youth, and adults with disabilities. We fund participation in hands-on creative education so that cost or circumstance never determines who gets to make things.

Make Your Mark and Artisan's Mill

Make Your Mark and Artisan's Mill work side by side in the same building. Artisan's Mill is the makerspace itself, a 14,000 square foot destination space opening in Spring 2027. Make Your Mark owns the studio equipment and sponsors access to it for people who couldn't otherwise afford to be there. What Artisan's Mill pays to use that equipment comes back to fund sponsored access, so every person who joins helps open the door for someone else. They're two separate organizations working toward the same thing: making sure cost or circumstance never decides who gets to make things.

Who We Serve

Make Your Mark provides hands-on arts education and creative community to people who would otherwise be left out, the ones who are too much, too loud, too in their heads, or too far outside the box. We believe different isn't something to fix, it's something to build with. We put supplies, equipment, instruction, and access into the hands of neurodivergent individuals of all ages, people with limited financial means, youth ages 12 to 21, adults facing financial or other barriers, people with disabilities, people in work release programs, and anyone still searching for where they belong. Our goal is simple: help people find their thing and give them what they need to pursue it, because when someone who's struggled their whole life to fit in discovers what their hands can do, everything changes.

Lighting a fire
for the love of creating

Ceramics · Textiles · Glass · and more

What We Offer

Divisions opening Spring 2027:
Painting. Open studio, all media.
Ceramics. Wheel throwing, hand-building, glazing, slab building.
Textiles. Knit and crochet, weaving, spinning, sewing, leatherwork, dyeing.
Large scale glass Fusing. Guest instruction from Seattle glass artist Kerry Johnson.
Letterpress and Printmaking. Home to a pre-1914 Chandler & Price platen press.
Technology Arts and Sculpture round out the maker floor.Woodworking and Metalworking and casting will follow in a later phase, once the additional shop building goes up on the parking lot.Current and upcoming program formats: raku nights, slip casting workshops, textiles workshops, open studio sessions, photography workshops, tie-dye workshops, paint-your-own-bisque nights, open mic poetry nights. Full studio instruction across all divisions is coming soon.No individually rented studio areas. Fully communal. This is a shared-access model, not a rental hall.

Our Story

Make Your Mark was founded in February 2026 and received 501(c)(3) approval in June 2026. Since then, we have been working behind the scenes fervently in preparation for opening.
Though we're in our founding year, our roots here run deep. Our founders have lived and worked in Wenatchee for years, and the relationships, equipment, and partnerships powering our programming were built long before our nonprofit status was official. We are makers ourselves.

Our Board

Todd Mill, Co-Founder and President. A 35-year culinary professional, glaze chemist, and woodworker with deep roots in the Wenatchee business and hospitality community. Coast Guard veteran.Alicia Maye Clifford, Co-Founder and Treasurer / Artistic Director. A multi-disciplinary artist working across ceramics, painting, tattooing, and photography. Stroke survivor and neurodivergent creative whose own experience of losing and reclaiming her art practice helped shape MYM's founding mission.Morgana Barnett, Co-Founder, Secretary, and Textiles Director. A neurodivergent, LGBTQ+ community member and multi-disciplinary artist whose lived experience mirrors MYM's core population.Josh Wellman, Co-Founder and Director of Development and Infrastructure. A ceramics instructor and construction professional supporting MYM's textiles and sustainability programming.

You don't need permission to make something.

Some buildings hold history... Some never stop making it.

➼ 1,100+ volunteer hours logged across our board and volunteers
➼ 12+ grant applications submitted June-August
➼ Approved for Google for Nonprofits, Canva for Nonprofits, and TechSoup
➼ 10 working kilns: five electric, one large gas, two raku, and two clamshell kilns for large-scale glass
➼ 100+ glaze recipes developed and tested in-house, with thirty buckets production-ready
➼ 300 bisqued pieces prepared for classes, paint-your-own sessions, and booth sales
➼ 100+ slip cast molds, with more being designed in-house
➼ $6,000 to $8,000 in donated equipment received
➼ 4 First Friday live art demonstrations
➼ 6+ small-group raku firings and hands-on lessons hosted
➼ 501(c)(3) approved June 2026, founded February 2026

Where We Work

Make Your Mark is based at 29 N. Columbia St., Wenatchee, WA 98801, inside the Old Stone Warehouse, a 14,000 square foot building on the National Historic Registry, built in 1906. The building features 32 inch river rock walls, exposed original clear fir flooring, and 26 foot ceilings

Where We're At

Make Your Mark was founded in February 2026 and received 501(c)(3) approval in June. What's happened since has mostly been hands and hours: more than 1,100 volunteer hours logged between May and August 2026 across our board and volunteers, and that number runs low, since several of us are still catching up on our logs.Much of that time has gone into building the studio itself. We now have five working electric kilns, a large gas kiln, two raku kilns, and two clamshell kilns for large-scale glass work, one donated by Seattle glass artist Kerry Johnson and one that came to us through the De Graaff estate collection. Alongside those: two slab rollers, two 3D printers, a Cricut Maker 3, a spray booth with ventilation built specifically for ceramics work, storage shelving built by co-founder Josh, and over 100 slip cast molds with more being designed in-house.
Our letterpress division is anchored by a pre-1914 Chandler & Price platen press and a Challenge Advance paper cutter, also from the De Graaff collection. A retired ceramics professor from CWU donated between $6,000 and $8,000 in equipment to help get us here.Co-founder Todd Mill has developed and tested more than 100 glaze recipes, most of them his own formulations, and has been narrowing them down to the working palette the studio will offer. Thirty large buckets are already mixed and ready for both production and classes, with around 300 bisqued pieces prepared for paint-your-own sessions, glazing classes, and booth sales that raise funds for sponsored access. He's also been testing a custom porcelain and stoneware clay body built specifically for this studio, recently completed John Britt's glaze workshop in Seattle, and has been designing slip cast molds from scratch by 3D modeling a form, printing a master, and pouring plaster into it. Alicia Maye Clifford has a full line of colored porcelain recipes ready to roll out once that clay body is finalized.We haven't been waiting for the doors to open to start making and teaching. We've brought live art demonstrations to First Friday art walks every month since May: wheel throwing, live painting, live fiber spinning from co-founder Morgana on both a spinning wheel and a drop spindle, and mini wheel throwing from our youngest demonstrator, who is 16. Behind the scenes we've been running informal instruction wherever we can, including one-on-one wheel throwing lessons and kiln loading taught by co-founder Josh, drop spindle spinning, slip casting and greenware care, plaster mold building, tie-dye sessions with small groups of teenagers, and at least six small raku firings hosted in our own homes for small groups. We've also put serious hours into learning the equipment we intend to hand off to other people: kiln electronics and mechanics, 3D modeling and printing, including keeping the printer running, and Cricut design software, which has gone into branded shirts, tiny 3D printed frames for hand-painted miniatures, and painted magnets for our booths.On the funding side, we've submitted more than a dozen grant applications since June and been approved for Google for Nonprofits, Canva for Nonprofits, and TechSoup. Our founding-year goals are to open with at least five active programming divisions, enroll our first cohort of sponsored participants, and secure $50,000 in grant funding for equipment and sponsored access. Longer term, we're working toward serving more than 100 sponsored participants a year by Year 3.None of this is a finished makerspace yet. It's kilns getting repaired, glaze recipes getting narrowed down, molds getting poured, and people teaching each other in our homes until there's a studio to do it in. Between May and August that came to more than 1,100 volunteer hours, over a dozen grant applications, four First Fridays, and at least six group raku firings. We're building the place we wish had existed back when we were the ones who needed it.

Building Community, Not Competing

There are already organizations across North Central Washington doing beautiful work in pieces of what we offer, and we're so glad they're here. We'd rather build a collaborative community with them than compete.We've been in active conversation with arts organizations, an autism-focused nonprofit, a community college art department, a downtown business association, a local market, and other community groups around the valley. Most of these are early friendships rather than formal partnerships, which is about right for a founding-year organization, and we want more of them.We're especially excited about a space use agreement in progress with the Alpine Meadows Spinners and Weavers Guild, pending humidity control for their wooden equipment, and Morgana is their incoming librarian.
If you run something in this valley that overlaps with what we're building, we'd love to hear from you. We'd rather know you and build with you than work around you.

The valley is better with more of us in it.

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We're not able to do this alone

Some things we still need

➼ Pottery wheels. We have a few and need several more. Every wheel we add is another person throwing at the same time instead of waiting a turn.➼ A wall-mounted extruder. It makes handles, tiles, and coil work possible for people who can't center clay, which puts ceramics within reach for a lot more hands.➼ Kiln shelves, posts, and stilts. Deeply unglamorous, and the thing that decides how much we can actually fire in a week.➼ Studio easels. We have two. Painting classes need eight to ten.➼ Desktop computers. Our technology arts division needs machines that can run 3D modeling and design software. If your business cycles out equipment, this is an easy way for that hardware to get a second life.➼ Air filtration for the ceramics area. Clay and glaze dust is a genuine health issue, and good filtration is what lets us run open studio safely for people of every age.➼ A de-airing pugmill. It recycles clay scraps back into usable clay, which keeps material costs down for everyone working here, and for sponsored participants most of all.➼ Programmable kiln controllers, or a large kiln that already has them capable of reaching cone 8 or 10. Being able to program a firing with holds is what makes results consistent and repeatable.➼ Materials of almost any kind. Clay, glazes, yarn, fabric, paint, canvas, paper, printmaking supplies. Consumables disappear fast once programming starts.Make Your Mark owns the equipment donated to us, and that ownership is what lets us put it into the hands of people who couldn't otherwise afford access. In-kind donations may be tax deductible, and we're glad to provide an acknowledgment letter for your records.

Help Us Build This

Volunteer

Volunteers help us get there, whether that's hands-on building and setup, teaching a skill, helping with events, or just showing up to pitch in. Every hour you give goes toward helping someone discover what they love and find their place as a creating, contributing member of this community.Sign up at Track It Forward:

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Give

Every dollar goes toward sponsoring someone's access to the tools, materials, and lessons they couldn't otherwise afford. We're currently in the approval process with PayPal Giving Fund, which will let you give directly through this page. Until that's live, email us to make a donation or to sponsor a maker.Email:

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Donate Equipment or materials

Some of the best things in this building got here because someone had a kiln, a loom, or a box of clay they weren't using anymore. If you have tools, equipment, or materials looking for a second life, we'd love to hear from you.Email:

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