We have a number of people creating crafts for the art center. All the crafts that we produce are authentic products of the area. 95 % of it we use in our performances, the rest we sell to art lovers in our little shop. The wood carvers listed below have helped to carve the pillars that hold up our home and in the pendopo performance space.

• Pak Sutrisno: Pak Tris is the instructor for our mask carvers classes and workshops. He has been making masks for 15 years and creates his own non-traditional masks. He also makes wooden boxes, large and small, wooden 'bags,' wall-hangings and ceremonial 'umbilical cord' boxes for keeping precious childhood keepsakes, which can be purchased in our shop.
• Pak Suud: A new carver at the art center, Pak Suud makes masks based on east Javanese Ramayana and Mahabarata wayang kulit. The carving is intricate and highly expressive. Pak Suud also creates gong stands of any size.
• Bapak Rasimun: A member of our mask dance troupe, Sri Margo Utomo, Pak Rasimun makes authentic and traditional Malang style masks for the Panji Pulangjiwo stories that are used in local mask dance drama.
• Buari Ananda Putra: Mas Buari makes non-traditional masks, and any type of headdress or accessory imaginable. He also makes special orders like holiday candle holders and wind chimes.

Costume makers

• Sunarmi and Sarti: located near the padepokan, these women create the intricately designed and beaded costumes that so characterize Javanese dance.

Batik

• Sigit Suseno: Mas Sigit is able to recreate the traditional designs that we use in performances. Certain dances demand specific batik designs. The Srimpi Limo dance, for example, is used in the purification ritual and called "ruwatan", and the batik kain panjang, or skirt, the dancers use is called Sekar Jagat, the 'flowers of the world.'

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