A great opportunity, but we cannot build it without you!​​

The key to the TCC's future and long-term sustainability lies in the addition of a dedicated educational facility on our existing campus. It will provide an additional 4,200 square feet, purpose-built specifically for ceramics and outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment. It will allow the TCC to increase its revenues enabling the hiring of full-time staff. It will also help to keep the TCC a vital part of the Taos community, providing an important educational center and an active arts environment to drive more visitors, students, and families to Taos.    

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Why is this facility so important?

The Education Center will provide the TCC with the space and flexibility needed to expand  class offerings at least two-fold including more for school-age children, veterans, and adults. It will also allow for year-round workshops (currently limited to seasonal) that will attract artisans not only locally, but throughout the US. The TCC has already begun establishing relationships from coast to coast with many of the nation's leading ceramic artists who are anxiously awaiting our invitation to lead and attend workshops, create seminars, and provide speaking engagements. The facility will provide a much needed presentation space that will be suited to comfortably accommodate sixty+ attendees. The entire space will be ADA accessible with easy entry and an interior elevator for reaching the 2nd floor of the facility. ​

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We need your help to make this a reality!

The building design is largely complete and the TCC is looking to begin site work by in 2028. Over the course of 2026 and 2027, we will be raising a total $850,000, largely through private donation. Our capital campaign was kicked off in July 2025. A fund has been established at the Centinel Bank of Taos for your much needed tax-deductible donations.​

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Tomorrow will be upon us before long. If you know the TCC and value what we have brought to the Taos community and northern New Mexico, we ask that you please consider making a tax-deductible donation, of any size, to help insure the TCC's future. For a $500 donation, buy an engraved 4x8 Paver Brick that will lead to our entrance and for $1,000, an engraved 8x8 Paver Brick.

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For those interested in making a donation or pledge of $25,000 or greater, we have opportunities for the permanent naming of rooms in your honor or in memoriam for a loved one. Please contact us by phone or email for more information or to schedule a meeting to discuss. We most sincerely thank you for your consideration.

 

Should you have any doubt of our commitment... ​

just look at what the TCC has already accomplished in just its first 6 years:

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The founders of the TCC privately funded the purchase of its two existing buildings totaling 5,600 square feet and the 1/4 acre lot that the Educational Center will be sited on. Two of the founders have each worked more than 60 hours a week, since inception, without financial compensation. In 2023, the TCC created a year-round Artist-in-Residency program for two visiting artists that provides a well-equipped private studio and comfortable housing at well-below market value. The residents become part of the TCC and Taos communities sharing their knowledge in teaching opportunities and furthering their learning as they live amid Taos' arts-centric environment. The TCC is now hosting their 6th and 7th residents. In July of 2024, the TCC was officially recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. The TCC ceramic supply store is the only one of its kind between Albuquerque and Denver servicing 450+ ceramic artists in northern NM and southern CO. And finally, the TCC Gallery is considered by many to be the finest ceramics exhibition center in the state of New Mexico and perhaps, throughout the  southwest. It has hosted more than 2-dozen solo exhibits and several multi-artisan shows, including an international invitational.

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Can we count on you to help?​

If you are interested in receiving a printed brochure about the education center with floorplans, please send your request by email to: info@taosceramics.com​​​​​​​​