Ideation Station LLC is a for profit social purpose organization promoting economic opportunity for individuals, startups, small business, the creation of jobs, promoting the arts, sciences, & increasing the flow of capital to entities with a social purpose. Our mission is to advocate for the cultural arts as economic drivers and to accelerate the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Texoma. We are where the Texoma Business and Creative Community Collaborate for meaningful work.

We promote empowering providers of educational events as well as local business and economic development in Texoma by working with individuals, non-profits and organizations to bring arts, STEM, educational and informative events, presentations, demonstrations, workshops to our community center and beyond.

Our facility offers coworking, collaboration, incubation and launch support for the arts, sciences, maths, businesses, entrepreneurs, leaders, non-profits and remote workers that seek a like-minded growth oriented community in downtown Sherman Texas. We do this through providing share space - meeting and work space on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis. We are located in historic downtown Sherman, Texas one block south on Travis from the Grayson County Courthouse and Justice Center.

This year Ideation Station is engaged in a collaboration project with the end goal of designing, raising funds and implementing a cooperative gallery and makerspace using the coworking business model and adapting it. The outcome of our prototyping activities with Ghost Town Arts Collective, Robotics Playground and other members is an ongoing project branded Collaboration Station. This project continues to engage start-ups, entrepreneurs, makers, artisans, artists, scientists, technicians and the business and creative community that are attracted to the concept and project. Please contact us if you would like to support these projects or our collaborative efforts.

Collaboration Station Projects:

Sherman Off the Square - branding and alliance marketing for the 200 block of S. Travis. Promotion of local businesses and events in the greater Texoma region.

Venue Off the Square - for large meetings, presentations and celebrations personal and professional

Gallery Off the Square - a co-operative gallery in collaboration with Ghost Town Arts Collective.

1 Million Cups - caffeinating the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Initiated the application and developing the launch team to sponsor weekly meetings to discuss, mentor and support start-ups and new business and product development in Sherman.

Help us fund and support the following initiatives with our members:

Gallery Off the Square - Local Cooperative Gallery

Technology Workshops - robotics, coding, creating a Website, data management

Classes (Arts & STEM)

Exhibits (Arts & STEM)

Coworking Lab (Arts & STEM)

Creativity Workshops

Finding Your Voice - narratives, story telling, memoirs

Language Learning/Use & Writing workshop

Poetry Jams initiative - the art of the spoken word

Bookmaking

Journal Writing Workshop

Pop Up Art Exhibits

Poetry readings

Poetry slams

Open mic nights for musicians

Open performance space for performance artists

Performance Metrics and Benchmarking for Non-Profits and Service Organizations

Masterminds for emerging enterprises

Building Digital Communities

Social Medial Collaboration and Influence in our Market

Podcasts and Podcast Development; including telling the story of this effort and participants as people choose to participate

Topical Group Meetings