Create your own nature journal out of recycled materials and decorate it with locally foraged plants. Using simple plant-based pigment recipes and leaf printing techniques, explore what plants can teach us and create a one-of-a-kind journal that is a record of our plant community.  

Learn to spin Kozo paper into delicate yarn and create a small woven piece. Exploring the intersection of fiber and paper crafts, participants will use drop spindles to make colorful paper threads perfect for weaving, knitting, and crochet! This workshop is part of the Reimagining Paper series co-presented with Textile Arts LA. 

Our ghastly pumpkin carving workshop is back! Learn how to carve a pumpkin and add a twist to the traditional activity with wicked chemistry concoctions and laboratory experiments. From gruesome oozing to frightful explosions, this workshop will be a blast!

Learn how to create your own colorful paper pulp and explore its sculptural potential by incorporating unexpected materials and simple sculpture armatures! This workshop is part of the Reimagining Paper series co-presented with Textile Arts LA. 

Join us and our friends from Adam’s Forge for a copper bowl forming workshop and learn about annealing, sinking techniques, work hardening, and heat patinas that produce rainbow hues. Experiment with a process-driven approach to creating and see where your new skills and materials take you! 

Art, technology, and biomaterial exploration converge in this multidisciplinary workshop with Sutherlin Santo. Alternating between demonstration and hands-on experimentation, this program will walk participants through creating their own plant-based biopolymer material gels and printing them into textile sheets using a robotic arm.

Following a brief tour of the exhibition Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), participants will walk to Craft Contemporary to create and decorate their own ceramic sculptural cup inspired by Suarez Frimkess’s work. No previous ceramics experience necessary. Co-presented with LACMA.   

Utilizing a variety of paper-based materials, participants will learn to make woven structures and explore the possibilities of woven surface designs in this fun and accessible class! This workshop is part of the Reimagining Paper series co-presented with Textile Arts LA.     

Dive into the world of oceanic materials in this bioplastic yarn workshop with artists Amy Chiao and Molly Haynes. Using algae, kelp, fish bones, sea urchins, and more, participants will experiment with algae yarn extrusion, marine waste processing, and natural dyeing to produce unique woven specimens!