In this two-part workshop, participants will join Ether: Aromatic Mythologies exhibiting artist Andrés Cortes to design and create their own mosaics. Guided through tile selection, design, and grouting, participants will craft works that, like Cortes’s own practice, express stories rooted in community building and radical imagination. The second session takes place on Saturday, October 11.

Meet exhibiting artist Andrés Cortes and learn about his art and community-building practice. Make your own adobe and wire-based mosaic with found objects, recycled tile and ceramic shards, inspired by Espiritu y Tierra.  Bring your own broken and found objects from home to incorporate into your creation. 

Scissor Siblings is a social practice art workshop born in response to the Trump-era executive order aiming to narrowly define sex as strictly male or female—an attack on the legal recognition of trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse communities. In defiance of such erasure, this zine-making space invites participants to collectively create, network, and reclaim their narrative,…

In honor of Día de los Muertos, join us in learning and creating a barrilete—a Guatemalan tradition with Maya roots that serves as a bridge between the living and their ancestors. These kites have also carried messages of resistance and community struggle, and together we’ll explore the messages we wish to uplift and share. 

Light Gauge transforms into a solar-powered stage frame and will host a range of evening performances, including a collaboration with United Futures and Function Design. Join us to explore the links between art, environment, media, and technology as we celebrate the closing weekend of Craft Contemporary’s interior exhibitions. This program is presented in partnership with…

Join exhibiting artist Genevieve Erin O’Brien in a guacamole-making demo, followed by a botanical dye bath made from the remaining avocado pits and skins. Participants will receive a bag of chips for their guacamole, and a scarf-length summer-weight strip of pre-mordanted soft cotton to dye. Fold, bind and then immerse your fabric into the dye…