Join our Membership Program on the level that best fits you and your budget for as low at $1 a day. from the Exploring Artist to the Professional Artist.

Members receive exclusive program and partner discounts while supporting

Have you been thinking about writing but don’t know where to begin? Then the Writer’s Café is the place for you.  Perfect for Writer’s at any stage in their development. Write together in community from the comfort of your own home, your favorite location, or in person in the Creator’s Cottage café. If you don’t know where to start, no worries! Writing prompts and encouragement is provided. The Writer’s Café is open six days a week either in person or online. Check the schedule for the most up to date details.

Opportunities to learn from professionals in a variety of fields in the form of lectures, seminars, and workshops.

Every member has access to our extensive on-sight collection of arts and craft related books.

 Is a quilting circle that gathers and meets out of the Creator’s Cottage. These women gather monthly to share stories and family and faith which they then depict creatively on story quilts. 

We have accommodations for up to 10 people. Take a personal or group retreat, these can be guided, artistic, spiritual, or on your own.

Visit our onsite gift shop. Purchase handmade soaps and body care products made on site at the Creator’s Cottage as well as books published by our sister company Ironer’s Press publishing. Check the calender for gift shop availability.  

We blend all of our own healthy tea blends at the Creator’s Cottage. We also press our own organic fruit and vegetable juices. If you or a loved one is interested in getting on the path of wellness or would like to sign a group of friends up for a sip and learn contact us here.

Hum, how do we describe Crafty Chica nights? The best way to explain them would be to say they are fun, fun, fun!  Yes, artists who make art for a living need a space to just create for fun! That is exactly what Crafty Chica night is a space to laugh and be creatively free without self-critique. Come and do the guided art project or work on a project of your own. And, if you are a new member, at least once a quarter we devote a Crafty Chica Night to Make Your Own Merch!   

This storytelling project focuses on the often-untold stories of Madison area women with a targeted outreach effort towards African American, Indigenous women and other women of color living in Wisconsin. Women ages 45 and up are invited to participate in The Memory Collectors Story Project. Participants in the program will come together monthly at the Creator’s Cottage to share memories surrounding family, community, faith, culture, and resistance. The participants in the Memory Collectors Project will have the option to either produce their stories in written form or to create their stories by means of fabric through story cloths and quilts. You do not have to be a quilter or a writer to do this! All participants will receive instruction, encouragement, positive feedback, and the necessary supplies to complete the project.  Each woman in the Memory Collectors Story Project who needs one will be issued a donated laptop to use for the duration of the program, fabric and art supplies to create their story quilts, and a blood pressure cuff to monitor and chart her stress levels.  Click here if you would like to sign up:  

Want to get to know other amazing artists in our Creator’s Cottage community? Come on out to Show and Tell Tuesdays to see what amazing talent we have among us. Showcased artists get a chance to talk about their work and what inspires them.