Get down in the dirt and celebrate the fascinating world of bugs in this playful ceramic hand-building workshop inspired by themes of soil, ecosystems, and transformation. Participants will create their own bug-inspired ceramic sculpture using simple hand-building techniques and underglaze accessible to beginners and experienced makers alike. Attendees will explore shape, texture, pattern, and surface…

Join us for a day of healing through sound and clay. We’ll begin with a guided meditation and sound bath led by a CLAYDD healer, creating space to slow down, reconnect with ourselves and the land. After grounding through these practices, we’ll transition into a hands-on clay experience where participants are invited to reflect and…

Join us for a hike near Griffith Park and get to know the soil beneath your feet while creating a ceramic piece using locally processed clay. Guided by clay artist Evelyn Hernández, participants will learn to identify clay and earthen pigments in their natural habitat while deepening their relationship to the land they stand on. In between…

Facilitated by Daniel “Chino” Rodriguez, who has shared collage-making practices with the Los Angeles community for over 10 years, the workshop centers art as a form of healing within our current political landscape. Inspired by the surrealist technique of exquisite corpse, the session begins with a brief overview of queer zine history, followed by a…

Reading material will be sent after registration, facilitators highly reccomend reading the material to further discuss it during the workshop. Join artist collective and reading group Worm School at Craft Contemporary for an afternoon of conversation and experimentation with clay as a medium for language, translation and memory. Seeding ourselves in the rich ground of Octavia Butler and Ursula K.…