Casey Criddle

Craft Studio Services’s home base in progress… 🟡🟠🛠️🟠🟡 Big thanks to my partner Ian for leading the construction builds on our garage project! @mandragunziez

The News Is Out. We’re open my friends! I’ve got my shop running well enough to take your orders. Artists and designers: contact me for your panels, canvas, custom design orders, murals and more!

HI! I’m Casey Criddle, I am the one woman behind Craft Studio Services. I have been operating my business since March 2021 and it’s about time I re-introduce myself. - @craftstudioservices is most broadly a service for artists and designers to realize their ideas and goals. My main service being carpentry. I can become your studio assistant, helping with storage, painting, logistics and more. - @craftstudioservices makes panels and canvases of any size or custom design. I have standardized products that are offered at our local art supply store @supply.rva and directly from me! Please reach out to inquire about any kind of surface to make art on. - @craftstudioservices I also offer mural assisting. I have most of my experience working on murals with @thicketdesign but have also collaborated with artists like @mattlively and @edtrask . Now accepting scheduling for murals starting in 2025!! These time slots go fast! A little about me- I’m from 757 and went to school at VCU, graduating in 2013 with a Painting and Print Making BFA. I stayed in Richmond finding the feeling of belonging and community to be my home. Throughout my time working professionally I moved around a lot and learned more about running small businesses than I would ever imagine. During this era I am also acting as a painter, working in my free time to make art. @caseycriddle As many people did, during the pandemic I realized much about myself and chose to dive right into the life I always wanted. There was no time to waste. I wanted a job that served me as an artist and gave me the platform to focus on my art more. With everything I learned in 10 years of working for 7 different small businesses/makers trades I created Craft Studio Services. I didn’t think it would work, I felt almost forced to jump into the deep end but it HAS been working. Our little city of Richmond pulled through. Now I happily work in my backyard shop. I have the most incredible space where I split carpentry and my studio work right outside my apartment. I wanted synergy and I made it happen! Thank you to all my clients and special thank yous to my regulars!! THANK YOU RVA! 📸 @benwhitephoto

A canvas for @tj_rinoski

We just delivered these two massive panels to @cameronwilsonritcher more info on these soon!

One large panel for @shanablakley

Two panels primed with gesso sanded to 220 for my buddy @thicketdesign

Cherry shelves for @jody_symula

Oversized stretcher by Craft Studio Services

Two canvases for @tj_rinoski Two pine stretchers with an “L” shape molding for stability and pine for weight. Stretched with heavy weight organic duck cotton canvas and finished with Goldens GAC 400 for that drum like tightness.

I made these custom adjustable cherry shelves for @jody_symula !! Jody reached out to me with an inspo unit from a popular home goods store. I was able to design these cherry shelves exactly to Jody’s liking with two sets of gussets that can move into six different heights for two 80” shelves. These shelves are designed to hold small sculptures and framed work with a narrow depth and a lip to hold them in. I had a great time building these and working with this beautiful lumber! Love you Jody! A little about how I met Jody- she was my professor freshman year of VCU painting and print making, I had her for drawing class. We instantly connected, I remember Jody being so patient with me. Recently, Jody told me how much she enjoyed me as a student because I challenged her every class, which made me chuckle for sure. I don’t doubt that I was a handful back then but we instantly bonded and to this day I love conversations with Jody, she’s incredibly smart and inquisitive. I’m so thankful for my experience in college and meeting Jody was definitely a huge part. Even though Jody isn’t teaching anymore she’s still making away in her personal studio creating beautiful ceramic pieces. 🥰 I’m pleased to make shelves for some of her personal collection!

Two large panels for @shanablakley Check out her one of a kind drawing collage process! Take a class to learn her technique or send her your cherished children’s drawings to compose herself!