Where Creative People Come to Learn, Make, and Connect
HobbyScool is a free online creative education platform for makers, crafters, and hobby enthusiasts — and a welcoming stage for the educators who love teaching them. Whether you're here to pick up a new skill or share one, you've found your people.
What We Do
At HobbyScool, we believe creativity is for everyone — not just the professionals, not just the people with a perfectly organized craft room, and definitely not just the ones who've been doing it for decades. If you love making things, you belong here.
We bring together expert educators from around the world to teach the skills creative people actually want to learn — from hand lettering and watercolor to knitting, weaving, paper crafts, quilting, and everything in between. Our events and workshops are designed to be accessible, energizing, and genuinely useful.
How We Bring It All Together
HobbyScool runs on three things: free summits, a monthly membership, and a community of educators who love what they teach. Here's how it all fits together.
Free Virtual Summits
12 themed summits per year — each one three days long and packed with around 30 expert-led workshops. Free to attend, with a VIP pass if you want to keep them.
Craft & Create Club
Our monthly membership drops a brand-new hands-on workshop every month, plus a growing library of past sessions — all in one place.
Expert Educators
We partner with skilled creators and teachers from around the world. Each one is vetted, passionate, and committed to helping hobby learners actually make progress.
Creative Community
HobbyScool is more than content — it's a place to share what you're making, get inspired by others, and feel like you belong in the creative world.
Our Belief About Creativity
A lot of people reach a point where they've been meaning to learn something for years — calligraphy, botanical illustration, natural dyeing, punch needle, encaustic painting — and they just never quite get started. Life gets busy. The learning curve feels steep. It's hard to know where to begin.
That's exactly what HobbyScool is here to solve.
"You don't have to be an expert to start. You just have to be curious. We'll take it from there."
— Dr. Destini Copp, Founder, HobbyScoolEvery summit we host, every workshop we add to the Craft & Create Club, every educator we invite to teach — it's all built around one idea: that creative learning should feel joyful, not intimidating. And that the right teacher at the right moment can completely change what you think is possible for yourself.
What's Coming Up
Our summit calendar runs all year long, covering a wide range of creative themes. Here's what's still ahead this year, plus the full 2027 season.
18–20
Back-to-Creativity Summit
15–17
Art of Handmade Summit
13–15
Festive Fall Workshop Series
10–12
Elves' Workshop Summit
15–17
Create & Reflect Retreat
Creative Vision Retreat
Memory Keepers Summit New
Organized Living Summit
Grow & Gather Summit New
Art of Expression Summit
Paper Crafts & Cardmaking New
Creative Tech Summer Retreat
Back-to-Creativity Summit
Art of Handmade Summit
AI for Makers New
Elves' Workshop Summit
Create & Reflect Retreat
Are You a Creative Educator?
HobbyScool is always looking for talented teachers, makers, and creative professionals who want to reach an engaged audience of hobby learners. If you teach a craft, an art form, a creative technique, or a maker skill — there's a place for you here.
You can apply to present at one of our upcoming free summits, or submit a workshop to be featured in the Craft & Create Club membership. Either way, you'll get in front of an audience that genuinely loves learning what you teach.
Teach What You Love. Reach the Right Audience.
Apply to speak at an upcoming HobbyScool summit, or submit a workshop for our monthly membership community.
Frequently Asked Questions
HobbyScool is a free online creative education platform for makers, crafters, and hobby enthusiasts. We host 12 free virtual summits each year, offer a monthly workshop membership called the Craft & Create Club, and welcome creative educators who want to share their skills with a passionate audience.
HobbyScool hosts 12 themed free virtual summits per year — roughly one per month. Each summit runs three days and features around 30 expert presenters. Workshops are pre-recorded and released daily, and each one stays free to watch for 24 hours. Register free, or upgrade to a VIP pass if you'd rather keep every workshop and watch at your own pace.
All twelve 2027 summits are confirmed: Creative Vision Retreat (January), Memory Keepers Summit (February), Organized Living Summit (March), Grow & Gather Summit (April), Art of Expression Summit (May), Paper Crafts & Cardmaking (June), Creative Tech Summer Retreat (July), Back-to-Creativity Summit (August), Art of Handmade Summit (September), AI for Makers (October), Elves' Workshop Summit (November), and Create & Reflect Retreat (December). Four of those are new or reworked for 2027.
The Craft & Create Club is HobbyScool's monthly membership for creative hobbyists. Members get access to a new hands-on workshop every month, a growing library of past workshops, and a supportive community of fellow makers and crafters.
HobbyScool welcomes applications from creative educators, crafters, and makers who want to share their skills with our community. You can apply to speak at an upcoming summit, or submit a workshop for the Craft & Create Club membership.
HobbyScool was founded by Dr. Destini Copp, an entrepreneur and digital product strategist. She built HobbyScool to create an accessible, joyful space where creative people could keep learning — and where educators could build an audience doing work they love.
