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Sunday, April 14, 2024
Craft Lab Family Workshop: Upcycled Soft Sculptures with Melora Garcia
1:30pm - 3:30pm $10 / members free
Join artist Melora Garcia to create soft fiber sculptures using recycled fabrics! Participants will use fabric stuffing, braiding, and simple sewing techniques to create dynamic sculptures out of multicolored textiles. For inspiration, visit the galleries and explore the textured sculptural and fiber artworks by Minga Opazo and Maria A. Guzmán Capron! Craft Lab is for…
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Ceramic Pomegranates: A Workshop with POT Studio
6:00pm - 8:00pm $75 / $70 members
Inspired by our current exhibition ART IRAN: Falling into Language, POT studio will guide participants through basic hand building, pinch, and shaping techniques in clay, including surface and underglaze decorations to make pomegranates! No prior experience is necessary.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Power of Mending and Upcycling with Minga Opazo
12:00pm - 3:00pm $85 / $80 members | includes materials
Spend an afternoon transforming and mending clothing with exhibiting artist Minga Opazo. Inspired by Opazo’s textile-based work which explores the relationship between contemporary textile production and climate change, participants will use hand stitching, embroidery, and other garment altering techniques to bring new life to damaged or discarded clothing.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Craft Lab Family Workshop: Printed Cartoons and Caricatures with the NEA Big Read!
1:30pm - 3:30pm $10 per person / free for members
Join teaching artist Billie Rae Vinson to create printed family portraits in conjunction with this year’s NEA Big Read: Los Angeles! Using simple print-making techniques participants will make exaggerated caricature artworks inspired by this year’s Big Read novel, Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? In her memoir Chast tells a story filled with laughs…