About Scrap Shop
Scrap Shop is a sober creative hangout, community workshop, and open-door gathering space permanently held at Grim House in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
It began through The Project, founded by Wyatt Fraley, as a way to bring people together who may not always feel naturally included in traditional social spaces. The idea was never just to host another hangout. The point was to create a room where people could show up, make something, meet people, and feel like they belonged.
Scrap Shop adds structure to that mission.
Instead of letting a gathering become another room where everyone sits around, drinks, or waits for something to happen, Scrap Shop gives the night a purpose. Every session has a creative goal. Sometimes that goal is visual art. Sometimes it is music. Sometimes it is sewing, crafting, building, writing, decorating, or experimenting with a group idea. The format changes, but the intention stays the same:
Make something together.
Scrap Shop has included projects like painting rocks for Grim House, sewing and altering clothes, making pinatas, creating the mascot Scrappy, building stuffed animals, making a Minecraft parody, writing songs, building playlists, and sharing community artwork.
The motto is simple:
Open doors policy.
Everyone is welcome.
Scrap Shop is now permanently held at Grim House, owned by Hunter Gotcher, also known as Grimmy. Hunter is a Tulsa musician, performer, venue owner, and community builder with around 20 years of experience in music and live performance. He created Grim House as an artist-run venue, rehearsal space, and cultural incubator where Tulsa creatives can gather, perform, rehearse, collaborate, and build real community.
Grim House is located at 1550 E. Apache St. in North Tulsa. It is built by artists, for artists, with a focus on independent music, live performance, creative development, and community-driven events. The space is intimate, weird, welcoming, and serious about treating artists with respect.
That makes Grim House a natural home for Scrap Shop.
Grim House is not just a place where shows happen. It is a creative house built around the belief that Tulsa artists, musicians, makers, and community members deserve a space where they can feel seen, supported, and included. Scrap Shop fits directly into that mission because it gives people a softer doorway into the creative community.
Not everyone is ready to play a show.
Not everyone sees themselves as an artist yet.
Not everyone knows how to walk into a scene and immediately belong.
Scrap Shop gives people a place to start.
A person can come in, sit down, paint something, sew something, listen, talk, help with a project, make a friend, or just be near the creative energy until they feel ready to participate. That matters. A lot of people do not need a stage first. They need a room.
At its best, Scrap Shop does three things at once:
It fights isolation.
People who may feel awkward, lonely, new, or outside of the normal social circle get a direct invitation into community.
It creates productive fun.
The room has a goal, but not the pressure of perfection. People leave having made something, helped with something, or contributed to the atmosphere.
It builds creative infrastructure.
Scrap Shop becomes a recurring entry point into Grim House's larger ecosystem of shows, workshops, artist development, media projects, and community programming.
Scrap Shop is more than an art night. It is a low-barrier community arts program that supports social connection, creative participation, informal skill-building, sober gathering, and access to Tulsa's independent arts ecosystem.
In simple terms:
Come as you are. Make something with us. Leave a little less alone.