Santa Fe is home to some of the world’s most original artists, craftspeople, industrialists, scientists, and writers. The City Different is among the top-ranked US metropolitan areas in its concentration of fine artists, visual artists, animators, art directors, architects, and authors.

Moreover, the presence of world-class scientific institutions has endowed the area with top minds working on the frontiers of the digital age in both industry and science.

In addition, the creative class in Santa Fe is a key driving force throughout Santa Fe’s history, and it holds remarkable promise for the city’s future.

MAKE Santa Fe’s goal is to catalyze this creative class by providing an easy means for collaborative creativity in art, craft, industry, and science. 

MAKE Santa Fe is motivated by the maker movement; we leverage digital technologies to remake manufacturing and job skills while reconnecting makers to their roots in creative problem-solving.

Today’s makers take advantage of technological and cultural shifts, allowing them to design, prototype, manufacture, and distribute their creative output quickly. These makers are our members.

We welcome casual makers while emphasizing the potential to use skills and equipment to start or grow an independent business. We operate like a traditional business incubator, but we’re much more organic, and the peer experience is more immersive. MAKE Santa Fe creates an environment where people whose traditional educational or professional models may have been challenged are able to thrive.