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Electric Cottage Collective

Electric Cottage Collective is more than just a coworking space. 

About Electric Cottage Collective

Electric Cottage Collective (ECC) is Brunswick’s vibrant hub for creativity, connection and community. More than a coworking space, we are a collective of multidisciplinary artists, wellness practitioners and changemakers who believe that art and social progress are inextricably linked. 

Aside from regular tenants, we offer yoga, dance, visual arts, herbal wisdom, sound healing and much more—practices that bring us into our bodies, where individual liberation can occur and ripple into collective freedom.

Here, we welcome:

  • Remote workers seeking an inspiring place to work

  • Artists looking for studio space and creative community

  • Activists and justice-oriented folks exploring new forms of expression

Anyone craving connection, curiosity, and collaboration​​​

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“Be Life Moving Towards Life” - Adrienne Marie Brown

​I’m Liz Kovarsky (she/her), a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and social worker based in Brunswick, Maine—and I’m the founder of Electric Cottage Collective.

My path has been anything but linear: My family moved frequently in my early life, so I was the outsider who adapted to each new town, school and social group. Painting became my anchor amidst the uncertainty, and I’d spend hours in my room as a teenager, lost in color and time, painting everything in sight—including my bedroom walls, much to my parents’ disapproval!

Art became a portal to another world, and I felt most alive when I was creating.

At MassArt, I was introduced to other weirdos like me, who wanted to rebel and challenge the status quo through various artistic mediums. We’d stay up all night, painting the town (literally). As a community, we believed that art had the power to transform, and that belief carried me through many more years of living in San Francisco as an art teacher, printmaker, dance and yoga teacher.

I moved again in my twenties, this time to Portland, Maine, to reunite with my best friend, and I became a social worker as a way to deepen my understanding of the very systems that I had been pushing back against for most of my adult life.

I studied trauma, substance use, body-based healing, and systemic oppression. I witnessed how often our institutions, well-intentioned as they may be, fail those they’re meant to support. After five years in this field, my body is beginning began to show signs of burnout or more accurately, the moral injury I’ve experienced as a social worker. 

I feel a deep yearning to return to art. To build community. To facilitate expression. To move my body.

 

To reorient to the question, “Am I moving towards death or am I moving towards life?”​​

Through my journey, I’ve realized: I don’t want to fight against and work within systems that drain our life force. I want to build a new model that renders the old systems obsolete. I want to move towards life.

ECC is that dream: A place where people get lost in time on an art project, exhale their anxieties in a yoga class, and transform their relationship to their bodies through dance. We work alongside each other in our day jobs, sharing ideas, space, energy and inspiration. We connect to what matters and access the courage required to live authentically and move towards what lights us up. We nurture the need for creativity and play, knowing that these very states are imperative for creating the new world we want to live in.

What We’re Building

Electric Cottage Collective is a hybrid coworking, arts, and wellness space rooted in collective care. It’s a place for the weirdos, the wanderers, and anyone hungry for expression, connection, and a more supportive, life-giving way of being.

On any given day, you might walk into a craft club, donation-based yoga, figure drawing, a dance class, meditation, barre class, karaoke night, a clothing swap, or a film screening. Some offerings are free or sliding scale, and we also have a fluctuating scholarship fund.

Our coworking members include designers, ecologists, farmers, artists, musicians, marketing pros, computer programmers, activists, local politicians, dancers, writers, and healers. Their work is diverse, but their intention is shared: to live more fully and support others in doing the same. 

This isn’t just about renting a desk or taking a class. It’s about co-creating a world where we can feel present in our bodies, be messy in our art, and be held in community.

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What We Believe

  • Creativity is a human right

  • Movement is medicine

  • Expression is liberation

  • Imagination is mandatory for creating change

  • Art is at the center of revolution

  • You don’t have to do it alone

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Lynn K

ECC is an amazing community space that I’m grateful to have. I’ve loved the yoga and dance classes I’ve tried, there are always new offerings by a variety of teachers and adore the ability to get out of my home office and work there when I’m able to. Liz has created something special here, can only highly recommend checking it out!

Andy V

I’ve come to several dance classes at ECC this week, and I simultaneously have had some of the biggest conversations around work and relationships this week that I’ve had in a really long time. I’ve spoken hard things that required courage and articulation and truth—and I really believe I was able to have those conversations because of the things that I moved through and let go of in dance class. I feel confident, strong and more clear after these classes

Rose D

The vibe: cozy, clean, vibrant. Feels like being at a friend’s house. Wonderful addition to the community!

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We are on the land of the Abenaki peoples of the Wabanaki Confederacy. ECC encourages everyone to learn how to take steps toward decolonization in our everyday lives in so-called Maine; to learn more, visit and support www.wabanakireach.org

82 Pleasant Street, 2nd Floor

Brunswick, ME 04011

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