Touchstone Center for Crafts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization offering immersive learning experiences in seven fully equipped studios including blacksmithing, ceramics, glass, fine metals, drawing/painting, and other special topics. Touchstone provides workshop scholarships for teens and adults, youth programming, artist residencies, internships for artists, and gallery exhibitions.

Founded in 1972, Touchstone’s mission is to advance excellence in the arts and crafts by educating and encouraging individuals to develop technical skills, good design, and innovative expression.

Touchstone’s 150-acre wooded campus is located in the Laurel Highlands, just 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, near Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, Ohiopyle State Park, and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort.