Discover how California’s plants, minerals, and fire can come together to create an extraordinary palette of natural color. Guided by our Artist in Residence, Meztli Projects, participants will explore Indigenous color-making approaches while experimenting with materials gathered from our local landscape. Together, we’ll consider making as a way to connect with place, deepen our relationship…

Do you have a poem burning inside of you? Explore the art of pyrography or writing with fire and craft your own meaningful one-line poems on found wood.  Inspired by Vandalismo Artesanal, this multigenerational workshop will begin in the galleries, incorporate time writing outdoors, and result in your own poem to take home. Ages 10+…

Join us in our new community gallery gathering space to weave with Aneesa Shami Zizzo! We’ll gather on select Sundays to create a collaborative woven rug using frame looms, yarn, and fabric strips. No weaving experience necessary! Whether you’re a pro weaver or picking up a loom for the first time, everyone is welcome to…

Experiment with cutting and forming metal and soldering a jump ring to make a memory pendant with meaningful objects with jewelry maker and metalsmith Monica Moreno. Once you’ve made your own pendant from metal, fill it with symbolic keepsakes, tiny photos, or other meaningful objects. Ages 10+ 

This workshop consists of three class sessions: January 23rd, 30th, and February 6th. Your payment includes all three classes and materials.    Pins, badges, and brooches have long served many functions. Evolving from the basic use of fastening garments, these items can be full of symbolic meaning and talismanic purpose. In this 3-course workshop, teaching artist,…

Learn how to transform raw sterling silver into a custom-fit, textured ring using fire! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll fabricate your own sterling silver band from start to finish, then personalize it with stamps, hammers, and other texturing techniques. Leave with a one-of-a-kind ring made entirely by you! Ages 18+ recommended. 

Join us in our new community gallery gathering space to weave with Aneesa Shami Zizzo! We’ll gather on select Sundays to create a collaborative woven rug using frame looms, yarn, and fabric strips. No weaving experience necessary! Whether you’re a pro weaver or picking up a loom for the first time, everyone is welcome to…

Burning Love is a mental health–focused collage and art-making experience centered on exploring passion, desire, self-worth, and emotional resilience. Through guided reflection and creative expression, participants will use collage to visually represent what fuels their inner fire- what they love, desire, and are reclaiming for their well-being. This event offers a judgment-free, affirming space that…

Join Senior Curator Frida Cano and exhibiting artist Carlos Castro Arias for a walkthrough of his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Together, they will discuss how Castro Arias brings opposing craft traditions into dialogue, holding the tensions between colonial and Colombian Indigenous histories while opening space to consider how these legacies continue to shape…

Join Embers of Generational Memory CCF Visual Arts Fellow Carol Zou and collaborators as they present their research on sound used as an anti-homeless measure in Los Angeles. Afterwards, people have the opportunity to activate the musical instruments that are part of Zou’s work beauty/violence: counterpoint.