Craft Contemporary

Museum of contemporary craft and design on Museum Row with hands-on Craft Labs, pay-what-you-wish weaving and woodworking socials, and seasonal makers markets.

Coming up at Craft Contemporary

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Oct23Maker-in-Residence Featuring Jackie AmézquitaOct 23 – Oct 23Free with museum admission
Oct24Translation in Clay: Interspecies Poetics with Worm SchoolSaturday, 1:30 PMWorm School leads a clay workshop that treats the material as a way into language, translation and memory, with reading sent to participants once they register. It runs 1:30–4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 24 at Craft Contemporary, 5814 Wilshire Blvd, on the Metro bus 20 Wilshire line. Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for the public. The museum's next hands-on clay session is the Nov 15 Craft Lab on seed-and-soil forms.$20 members/$25 public
Nov14Opening Reception: Vandalismo Artesanal, Embers of Generational Memory and Laboratorio Fuego MedicinalSaturday, 7:00 PM$12 public / members free
Nov15After the Fire: Lecture on Soil Renewal + Community Resilience with Lynn FangSunday, 12:00 PMSoil ecologist Lynn Fang explains bioremediation and how soil can come back after wildfire. The lecture runs noon to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov 15 at Craft Contemporary, 5814 Wilshire Blvd, reachable on Metro bus 20 along Wilshire. It's free or pay-what-you-wish, and booking opens Monday, Oct 26. Right after, at 1:30 p.m., the museum's Craft Lab puts the idea into practice with seed-and-soil forms.Free / pay-what-you-wish
Nov15Craft Lab: Earth Offerings – Shaping Seeds + Soil for Post-Fire RecoverySunday, 1:30 PM$10 public / members free
Nov21Copaleros con LumbreNov 21 – Nov 21Taty Hernandez of Lumbre Ceramics teaches a hand-building class in which each participant makes a copalero, a clay holder for burning incense. It runs 2–4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov 21 at Craft Contemporary, 5814 Wilshire Blvd, served by Metro bus 20 along Wilshire. Pricing is a sliding scale of $25–50, and booking opens Monday, Oct 26. It sits between the museum's Nov 15 Craft Lab and its Nov 22 weaving and sharpening afternoon.sliding scale $25-50
Nov22Weaving with Aneesa Shami ZizzoNov 22 – Nov 22Drop in to help weave a collaborative rug on frame looms with artist Aneesa Shami Zizzo; no experience is needed. This session runs 1–5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov 22 in the museum's new community gallery gathering space at 5814 Wilshire Blvd, near Metro bus 20 on Wilshire. It's pay-what-you-wish with an RSVP that opens Monday, Oct 26, and the museum says the weaving repeats on select Sundays. The same afternoon brings a tool-sharpening social from 2 to 4 p.m.pay what you wish RSVP
Nov22Wood on the Street: Sharpening SocialNov 22 – Nov 22Bring your own blades and tools and sharpen them with expert Camerino Velasquez on hand at this informal social. It runs 2–4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov 22 at Craft Contemporary, 5814 Wilshire Blvd, on the Metro bus 20 Wilshire line. It's pay-what-you-wish with an RSVP that opens Monday, Oct 26. It overlaps with the museum's drop-in weaving session that afternoon.pay what you wish RSVP

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