The Traveling Tool Library is a collaborative project by Building Community, an organization of hands-on thinkers at Cornell University that engages with the craft culture in upstate New York through socially-activated artworks. The Library is a vehicle that enables creative interactions between student groups, community organizations, and local craftspeople who would otherwise work independently, separated by institutional and geographic obstacles. By assembling undervalued materials and sources of knowledge, the Library initiates collective improvement of and engagement with the built environment. The mobility of the Library enables exchange between the Cornell community and the greater Ithaca area.

A series of public tool restoration workshops taught by the wise Billy O'Brien of Trumansburg took place concurrently with the construction of the Library.

|in collaboration with Building Community|