Collect & Gather is a free community makerspace funded in part by a craft/art supply thrift shop and funky art boutique. We aim to serve the fringe artists and experimenting makers! Our type of nonprofit is growing in community need but much of grant support has not caught up with the economics of our area. Without artist incubators like ours – a community can head into an arts vacuum where artists are not granted into a community that says they celebrate the “starving artist”. Afterall, we wouldn’t have such great pieces from Vincent Van Gogh if he hadn’t suffered for his sanity and put it into his art. But it would have been better in 1890 if Vincent had a place to go for his mental health. That is the purpose of a makerspace.