Inside Xerocraft: Tucson’s Home for Makers and Builders
A nonprofit space where imagination, grit, and real tools come together.
If you walk into Xerocraft on any given afternoon, you might hear the buzz of a laser cutter, the whirr of a sewing machine, or the low hum of friends scheming over a project too weird for anywhere else. We're a nonprofit makerspace sitting on the edge of downtown Tucson, built by and for the people who believe in making things real: with their hands, their imaginations, and a little desert grit.
Xerocraft isn’t shiny or corporate. It’s not an invention incubator. It’s something else: a volunteer-powered, community-grown space where anyone can learn, build, and bring wild ideas to life.
What Xerocraft Actually Is
At our core, we’re a nonprofit dedicated to hands-on learning and creative empowerment.
Members get access to workshops across all kinds of disciplines:
Woodworking
Metalworking
Electronics and robotics
3D printing and laser cutting
Textiles and sewing
Jewelry Making
And more strange and beautiful experiments we’re always adding.
We’re almost entirely powered by volunteers. Our members don’t just use the space: they help sustain a living, breathing ecosystem. Membership fees help pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain our collection of tools and equipment that fuels projects across the city.
What I Do at Xerocraft
I serve as President and CEO; I manage the board, our business affairs, and our long-term vision.
I focus on:
Leadership and governance
Building sustainable financial systems
Shaping policies and expectations to protect our space and our people
Improving membership experiences
Planning for long-term stability in a city where creative spaces are under constant pressure
A lot of my work happens behind the scenes, writing policies, building databases, and restructuring systems. Every bit of it is aimed at the same thing: keeping a place like Xerocraft possible.
Because Tucson deserves it.
Why Xerocraft Matters
We live in a time when fewer people have access to real, tangible making.
Workshops are expensive. Land is expensive. Creativity gets squeezed between high rents and endless screens.
Xerocraft holds its ground against that.
We believe everyone deserves a place to create, whether you're a full-time artist, a retired machinist, a curious young adult, or someone just figuring it out.
We're here to keep the tools in your hands.
To offer space for experiments, failures, triumphs, and new beginnings.
To protect the freedom to imagine and build, one project at a time.
In the end, Xerocraft isn’t just a makerspace.
It’s a reminder that making matters.
And that community — messy, brilliant, volunteer-powered community — is what keeps it alive.