Culture Mill
Textile mills spin, dye, and weave raw fiber into cloth. Our Culture Mill does the same with ideas—shaping inspiration into dance, theater, visual art, literature, and music. Programs like Beat Making Lab help turn creativity into powerful expression worldwide.
Culture Mill
From Textile Mill to Culture Mill
A textile mill is a facility that is involved in some aspect of textile manufacturing. At a textile mill, raw materials are turned into thread that can be woven, crocheted, knitted, or used in other ways to make textiles. Such mills include facilities for cleaning, processing, spinning, and dying the raw material, as well as weaving it into fabrics.
Our Culture Mill works in much the same way. It takes raw materials (ideas/ inspiration) arising from people and opportunities and turns them into expressions of Fine art. While textile mills may specialize in a particular type of raw material such as silk, cotton, nylon, or rayon, Culture Mill weaves cultural raw materials into dance, drama, visual arts, literature and music/rhythm. One example is our Beat Making Lab, a local group that travels around the world, teaching disadvantaged children how to make electronic music.
To learn more, visit CultureMill.org