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Sunday, November 3, 2024
Material Acts: Curator Walkthrough
11:30am - 1:30pm free
Curators Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu lead a tour of the exhibition Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design, with a focus on designers working through living systems and notions of ‘liveness’ in new materials.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Material Acts: A Symposium at USC
10:00am - 4:00pm free
Material Acts: A Symposium brings together artists, designers, and architects experimenting with material processes and systems. Understanding materials as process-based events with human actors, rather than artifacts found in stasis, this symposium on new materials explores the rich milieu of ideas that accompany their making, including practices in bioregional design, waste economies, and living systems, alongside…
Friday, December 13, 2024
The Finest Disregard: Ceramics Workshop
6:00pm - 8:30pm $45 / $35 LACMA and Craft Contemporary Members
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.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Gallery Demonstration and Cellulose Harvesting with Maru García
12:00pm - 1:30pm free
Artist and alchemist Maru García leads a presentation about her site-specific installation composed of a live SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast). García will also demonstrate how living cultures are sustained, grown, and how bacterial cellulose is harvested.