People can sign up for different membership levels, from all-hours access and storage for $200 per month, down to $30 per hour for tools and space to finish a project. Much of the woodworking equipment was scavenged from schools when they dismantled their woodworking shops. "There are fewer and fewer high school shop classes," Debelak said.
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Soulcraft Cleveland is about re-discovering the dynamic value of working with one’s hands and the creative community which naturally arises when a group of people engage in such a discovery. The inherent value that comes from working with ones hands, of creating something, affects one's psychic development far beyond the learning of a skill. It changes one's perspective on how they relate to the world around them. While we offer myriad tools, classes and workshops to learn all manner of skills, we believe learning is more about a posture toward one's life than acquiring skills. Soulcraft seeks to foster that engagement.
To that end, we work 1) to empower students and entrepreneurs through job training and incubation, 2) with schools and other institutions of learning to foster design-thinking and problem-solving to enable life-long learning; and 3) in and with the community to ensure that our efforts have a distributed impact throughout the region and not simply on the self-selecting few.
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Soulcraft Cleveland is about re-discovering the dynamic value of working with one’s hands and the creative community which naturally arises when a group of people engage in such a discovery. The inherent value that comes from working with ones hands, of creating something, affects one's psychic development far beyond the learning of a skill.