the studios are an amalgam of folks that somehow find the time and energy in their daily lives to make stuff. we help each other out, we lend each other tools, we drink wine and coffee and bounce ideas off each other. this community is what makes the spare room project possible.

lauren anderson would prefer to be thought of as a handyman, a troubleshooter, or a jury-rigger. a very good friend once told her that they would write her biography and title it "out of the waste stream".

erin mcelroy makes all kinds of things. you know, things like paintings, photographs, papers, websites, sprouts, and trouble. in sixth grade erin made a coat of arms out of felt that said "never bored," and pretty much that sums it up.

gregory bartlett prefers tiny things to big things and believes that art should happen more often in everyone's daily life. he is working on a new website which can viewed here.