Join us weekly on Fridays throughout the summer for open-ended airdry clay drop-in classes. No class on Friday, July 4th. Museum is closed. Try your hand at a selection of clay projects using simple sculpting and joining techniques. All ages welcome!  First-come-first-served, no RSVP required, free for family passholders. If seats are full, we invite…

Inspired by our current exhibition, Ether, workshop participants will create their very own handmade incense cones! Mix a variety of natural materials including makko powder and other dried herbs and flowers!

Join us weekly on Fridays throughout the summer for open-ended airdry clay drop-in classes. No class on Friday, July 4th. Museum is closed. Try your hand at a selection of clay projects using simple sculpting and joining techniques. All ages welcome!  First-come-first-served, no RSVP required, free for family passholders. If seats are full, we invite…

Join exhibiting artist Raymundo T. Reynoso in a collaborative artmaking activity using stenciling, images and found typography. Enjoy a gallery conversation with Reynoso and explore how text and image interact to create stories of our city. 

Meet the air we share artist Felix Quintana and learn how to create emotionally moving cyanotypes that layer time and place. Through a collaborative cyanotype collage / photo mural, community members and participants are asked to contribute a piece, photograph, shape, or object with the theme of change and connection in mind. For this workshop,…

Meet the air we share artist Felix Quintana and learn how to create emotionally moving cyanotypes that layer time and place. Through a collaborative cyanotype collage / photo mural, community members and participants are asked to contribute a piece, photograph, shape, or object with the theme of change and connection in mind. For this workshop,…

Create a personalized ceramic tree of life inspired by Mexican árboles de vida using coil and hand-building techniques. Participants will choose and sculpt everyday symbols that reflect their life story and identity. 

In this two-part workshop, participants will join Ether: Aromatic Mythologies exhibiting artist Andrés Cortes in designing and creating their very own mosaics. Folks will be guided through a process of tile selection, design and grouting. Similar to Cortes’s own work, these mosaics will express stories rooted in community building and radical imagination.  

In this hands-on workshop, participants will extract golden hues from the cempasúchil flower and dye cotton fibers using traditional techniques. We’ll conclude our workshop while enjoying some delicious soup made with cempasúchil petals and other fall vegetables. 

Meet exhibiting artist Andrés Cortes and learn about his art and community-building practice. Make your own adobe and wire-based mosaic with found objects, recycled tile and ceramic shards, inspired by Espiritu y Tierra.  Bring your own broken and found objects from home to incorporate into your creation.