Join us for a situated symposium held beneath the 2026 Materials & Applications Summer Pavilion, Earthen Comforts. Borrowing from the discursive and disciplinary format of an academic symposium, the event gathers California-based design practices around a communal table to present research and lead discussion on the entangled topics of material assembly and performance. Presenting participants include Salmaan…

Celebrate the tiny creatures that help keep our soil healthy in this hands-on, creative mask-making workshop with our friends from Planet Earth Observatory! Participants will use cardboard, paint, and other mixed-media materials to build wearable masks inspired by the beneficial soil critters that live beneath our feet—beetles, grubs, rotifers, nematodes, and more. This workshop encourages…

Throghout the exhibition, tierra artist Jackie Amézquita will be on-site at Craft Contemporary as part of our Maker-in-Residence program on select Fridays. Visitors are invited to meet and speak with Jackie, and get a glimpse into her studio practice. Using soil gathered from around the United States, Jackie will be mixing the gathered soil with masa, cacao, spring water,…

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 ceramic artist Ronnie Mok for an afternoon of Mahjong and making! Learn to play and join a table for free play, then design your own air-dry clay mahjong charm to take home. Free, supplies available on a first-come, first-served basis. All ages welcome!  

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…

Fall is the perfect time to plant California poppies, and putting the seeds into a soil ball offers the perfect microbiome for poppy seeds to start. You’ll learn more about artists who engage with the land to create their art and have a new appreciation for this brilliant native plant, which can extract heavy metals…

Exhibitions as chapters of a book? Join Senior Curator, Frida Cano, in a conversation about Craft Contemporary’s current curatorial vision titled “The [Untold] Story of Craft.” Through a series of conversations about our past, present, and future exhibitions, we will share the storytelling aspect of pairing craft with the elements of air, earth, and fire for the conception and production of the exhibitions Ether: Aromatic Mythologies, tierra, and Vandalismo Artesanal, respectively. Through this lens, all of Craft Contemporary’s…

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…