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Founded in 1972, Touchstone Center for Crafts is a premier craft school located in Pennsylvania with a mission to advance excellence in the arts and crafts by educating and encouraging individuals to develop technical skills, good design, and innovative expression. Touchstone achieves this through an array of media including blacksmithing, ceramics, glass, fine metals, drawing/painting, and other special topic areas.

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. Touchstone is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization offering immersive learning experiences in 7 fully equipped studios, workshop scholarships for teens and adults, artist residencies, internships for artists, and gallery exhibitions.