Join Craft Contemporary’s Senior Curator Frida Cano for a hands-on workshop creating handmade paper from recycled waste, experimenting with natural tints from clay, spices, and soil.

These one-of-a-kind papers become museum collectibles that share insights about the artists and our current exhibition tierra, connecting craft with storytelling.

$12 public / members free. Outdoors.

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Join Zapotec artist Vero Mendoza and learn ancestral techniques for preparing and dyeing textiles with natural dyes.

All participants receive a pre-treated cotton bandana to dye and take home. Includes a weaving demonstration with naturally dyed yarn, an art form passed down four generations in Mendoza’s family.

Held in Zapotec and Spanish with English translation.
Ages 7+. $25 members / $30 non-members.

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Salt crystals are produced through the evaporation of mineral-rich waters, leaving behind memory, artifact, and texture.

In this workshop, salt becomes both material and metaphor for the environment and the afterlife of objects. Led by artist Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida, participants explore crystallization while creating textile samples, brines, and a small salt sculpture to take home.

Sliding scale, suggested $15-35.

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Join artist Amanda Maciel Antunes (aka dama) for a sound-gathering workshop, Earth Frequencies.

Through deep listening and field recording outside the museum, participants capture sonic textures from soil, wind, water, and insects—weaving sounds into a collaborative soundscape in the galleries.

$10 public / members free. All ages welcome.

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Taking transit and crafting together builds stronger, more interwoven communities. Add to our weaving wall, leave a message on our wishing tree, and try your hand at weaving, with your very own loom to take home.

Free.

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Embrace the grounding, creative flow of clay play—finding balance and inspiration through the art of being present and shaping something new.

Each participant will take home a hand-built piece inspired by their unlocked creativity. Free and open to all.

Supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Our two-year Online International Handwork Teacher Development Program gives you the foundations, projects, and pedagogy to thrive as a Waldorf handwork teacher – in any setting, anywhere in the world.

Meeting one weekend a month on Saturdays and Sundays, we work our way through grades 1-8, exploring the essence of handwork and its place within the broader Waldorf curriculum.

Now accepting applications for September 2026. Tuition assistance available.

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Children arrive in our classrooms with diverse ways of learning, sensing, and engaging. What looks like distraction or resistance often carries a deeper story.

This July, join an international community of educators to explore neurodiversity, sensory processing, and inclusive Waldorf teaching – and find new ways to meet every child’s journey.

Discover practical handwork projects and strategies, including classroom sensory kits and adaptive stitching projects, and more!

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Explore the full arc of Waldorf handwork, grades 1–8. Join us online this June for a practical overview of the what, how, when, and why of teaching handwork at every grade level.

Conference Highlights

• All-new 2026 content
• Beginning-of-year projects for every grade
• Skills that build progressively across all eight grades
• Fresh projects — no repeats from last summer

Open to anyone teaching in a Waldorf-inspired setting. Basic handwork skills required.

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This 9-day celebration connects visitors with hundreds of master craftsmen from across New Hampshire and New England.

Explore nearly two hundred sales booths featuring fine craft in every medium, shop curated exhibitions, experience engaging demonstrations, and enjoy live music and delicious food.

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Explore San Diego through the institutions, artists, craftspeople, and designers who make our craft community. Each weekend in July, a different neighborhood will be activated through interactive craft programming.

Enjoy exhibitions, tours, workshops, demonstrations, make-and-takes, and shop artisan crafts at the most vibrant craft organizations in the region. In conjunction with Handwork 2026.

• July 11 – Balboa Park
• July 12 – La Jolla
• July 18 – Liberty Station
• July 18/19 – City Heights/Balboa Park
• July 25 – College Area SDSU

Google Map Link with event info: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sw3B8Td5gzERXaai7

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Discover the basics of spinning wool on a spinning wheel. Learn about wheel parts, fiber preparation, woolen and worsted spinning, art yarns, and troubleshooting techniques.

Students will have the opportunity to try different spinning wheels and tension systems while creating their first handspun yarn.

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Learn the foundations of preparing fiber for spinning, from scouring and dyeing theory to hands on combing, carding, and blending.

Compare woolen and worsted preparations, explore fiber types, and discover how different prep methods affect spinning and finished projects.

Students will create and take home fiber samples.

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Create an 8”x8” mosaic using glass and tile while learning cutting, design, adhesives, and finishing techniques. Bring a simple design or choose from provided options; pieces are grouted on day two.

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Explore the ancient art of tablet weaving, a technique that uses threaded cards to create colorful woven bands and patterns.

Learn the basics of warping, weaving, pattern design, and how tablet rotation affects the finished piece.

Students will start and weave their own project to continue at home if desired.

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