Meztli Projects is a collective of contemporary Indigenous artists that promotes the creative development of Native and Indigenous Peoples by providing an ecosystem that reconnects generations, supports cultural production, and contributes to knowledge building and transmission. As Maker-in-Residence at Craft Contemporary, their residency, entitled Laboratorio Fuego Medicinal, explores fire as ritual and material force. The…

For more than 35 years, the California Community Foundation’s Fellowship for Visual Artists (FVA) has provided financial support and professional resources to more than 300 visual artists in Los Angeles County. This exhibition highlights the 2026-2027 FVA cohort—a dedicated group of artists whose practices reflect the histories, cultures, and geographies of Los Angeles. The work…

Vandalismo Artesanal stages a confrontation between two craft traditions: bronze—a technique historically used to memorialize, monumentalize, and construct national narratives—and the weaving and beading crafts of communities across Colombia. Here, bronze statues emerge fragmented and reconfigured: busts encircled in basketry or adorned with Inga symbols, among others. These gestures of “vandalism” stage a moment of…

Jackie will be at the museum on August 21, August 28, September 18, October 2, and October 23, 2026. Jackie Amézquita (b. 1985, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala) lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages the ecological, ancestral, and cosmological dimensions of space, place, and temporality. For Amézquita, a site is…

Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth is a courtyard installation led by Liz Gálvez (Office e.g.) that stages mass and fiber as shared infrastructures for collective comfort in the Los Angeles summer. Building on the practice’s ongoing investigation into heat resilience and material experimentation by staging thermal infrastructures as architectural and civic propositions, the project adapts passive…

ESPAÑOL (Más información sobre la exposición) There is a quiet weight to the word tierra.  It settles slowly, like dust after movement, like clay in a riverbed.   It names what is beneath, what is held, what is returned to. tierra expands and contracts. It burrows under fingernails, lingers in the air, settles in memories. It is both earth and land, but it is also…

Craft Contemporary is pleased to announce its new Maker-in-Residence program with Los Angeles–based non-profit organization Piece by Piece and Southern California artist and sculptor Vince Skelly. Visitors will be able to interact, ask, and sometimes collaborate with the makers as they experiment with materials and processes, pushing the boundaries of contemporary craft. The residency will…

Material Curiosity by Design explores the prolific careers of midcentury designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in dialogue with select works by three contemporary artists. Celebrated for their vibrant contributions to California modernism, the Ackermans partnered for decades on bold designs that brought warmth to midcentury interiors. Showcasing their ceramic, textile, mosaic, wood, and metal creations…