The ACGA Clay & Glass Festival returns to the beautiful grounds of the Palo Alto Art Center in July, featuring 140+ of California’s best artisans, makers, sculptors, and potters showcasing their original works in clay and glass!

Catch the exciting pottery Throwdown to be held both days — where talented throwers compete against the clock and each other to see who can throw the tallest cylinder and widest bowl.

Demonstrations by amazing makers, food trucks, and endless art to collect and enjoy.

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Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is a first-of-its-kind.

This powerful, majestic and groundbreaking exhibition gives broader and overdue recognition to roughly 120 glass art objects created by twenty-nine Native American artists, four Pacific Rim artists from New Zealand and Australia, and leading glass artist Dale Chihuly.

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass was originated by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico where it was curated by Dr. Letitia Chambers and Cathy Short (Potawatomi). The traveling exhibit was curated by Dr. Chambers and is toured by International Arts & Artists.

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After years of thinking that originality was the key to making anything ‘good,’ it amazed me that copying the already-existent did something that an original could not: critically play with its history and value.

-Reniel Del Rosario

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A Stitch & Glitch in Time brings together thirteen Los Angeles-based artists who use textiles to explore technology, fashion, and collective histories. Los Angeles has a long history in textile production, both for industrial use and artistic expression.

The processes and materials utilized by these artists embody this long and complex history – highlighting how textiles can simultaneously be highly personal while revealing the larger economic and social circumstances they were created within.

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The Art Galleries at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) serve the campus and larger Los Angeles area audiences through innovative contemporary art exhibitions and related programs. Our multifaceted and culturally-relevant exhibitions of professional and student artists reflect the diverse communities that make up CSUN and greater Los Angeles.

As one of the few art institutions in the San Fernando Valley, CSUN Art Galleries are a unique regional resource where visitors can connect in-person with art, artists, and each other.

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Celebrate the legacy of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in an intimate conversation with their daughter, Laura Ackerman-Shaw, exploring their decades-long creative partnership, design approach, and lasting influence.

After the talk, stay for In Tandem by Katie Nartonis and Margaret Halkin, a 22-minute documentary on the Ackermans’ shared lives, careers, and their pivotal role in shaping California mid-century modernism.

This program is part of Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman.

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AIR 2026: Compulsion features new work by four AMOCA Artists in Residence: Bianca MacPherson, Kristy Moreno, Maxwell Henderson, and Yoon Hwang. The exhibition presents new work these artists have made in the AMOCA Ceramics Studio during their time in residency.

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Join guest curator Jamie Kwan on a walk-through of Fired in Revolution: Ceramics from the People’s Republic of China. Kwan will talk about the exhibition, share details about the collection, and discuss how the concept for the show came to a realization.

Fired in Revolution explores how The Cultural Revolution was a period of social, cultural, and economic upheaval caused by radical government ideology. It not only affected politics, but also the daily lives of the Chinese people.

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Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking discussion centered around the captivating history of our current exhibition, Fired in Revolution: Ceramics from the People’s Republic of China.

Exhibition Manager Pam Aliaga will lead a tour and offer two signature boba drinks, created in house. The exhibition presents ceramic work created during the Cultural Revolution, a period in China when all artistic and imagery production was under strict control by Chairman Mao.

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Tools of the Trades: American Handmade Implements & Devices is the first exhibition of its kind to highlight beautifully designed, hand-crafted tools made by contemporary toolmakers and artists in the United States. It celebrates the ingenuity born of necessity and the special narratives in the hand-crafted.

The objects pertain to a wide scope of crafts: ceramics, textiles, hot glass, wood working, and metal, including the niche fields within them, such as blacksmithing or spinning.

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San Diego-based artist Ashley Blalock created a large-scale, site-specific crocheted installation for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for their 30th Anniversary.

Says Blalock: This slow, meditative process is a remedy to world increasingly comprised of virtual connections, quick transitions, planned obsolescence, and instant gratification.”

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An engaging art and nature experience, this intimate docent-led tour covers the art and architecture of founder and artist James Hubbell.

Located on 10 acres of oak woodlands near Julian, California, the Ilan-Lael compound encompasses living quarters, studio and gallery spaces, gardens and a public building for the Ilan-Lael Foundation.

Tours are approximately 90 minutes and limited to small groups to enhance your experience.

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Quilting for Community is a nonprofit studio and fabric store in Chatsworth, California.

We teach quilting in a way that welcomes beginners and supports people looking for purpose, creativity, and community. Many students become volunteers in the studio or fabric store and later step into teaching. This keeps skills moving and keeps the space active and exciting!

We offer free and low-cost classes with all materials provided. Students make quilts for people in hospitals, hospice, and shelters. This gives new quilters a clear goal and keeps the work grounded in service. Our fabric thrift store supports this work by turning donated textile surplus into affordable fabric for the public and steady revenue for our programs. We divert thousands of pounds of material each year and offer a place where people stay involved, build skills, and make something useful.

Q4C functions as a third space where people return, build confidence, and support one another. We grow community by teaching people to teach each other.

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Contemporary folk artist, Timothy Hinchliff teaches yarn painting at Ilan-Lael.

Yarn paintings can be thought of as yarn mosaics. Designed for centuries by the North American Native Huichol people, yarn paintings were originally votive prayer offerings, and have evolved into elaborate works of art depicting sacred stories and symbols.

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Our mission at Adam’s Forge is to provide a safe, inclusive, diverse, accessible and thriving community where people of all ages and backgrounds can share in the traditions, knowledge, and artistry of blacksmithing, metal arts and other creative handcrafts across generations and into the future.

The magic of iron is in everyone’s blood.

Adam’s Forge provides hands on classes in artistic blacksmithing, related metal arts and creative handcrafts. We offer space, tools and expertise to aspiring artists. We provide demonstrations and speakers for public events and meetings. We support a vibrant artistic blacksmithing community with outreach to our surrounding Southern and Central California community.

Founded in honor of metal artist Adam Leventhal, our blacksmithing and multimedia art studio in Simi Valley connects our past while forging our future.  We offer classes to complete beginners and those looking to build advanced skills. In our supportive environment, students learn time-honored techniques while discovering their own creative path.

As Southern California’s premier center for metalworking education, we are uniquely positioned to bridge traditional craftsmanship with contemporary artistic innovation — creating opportunities that are notably limited in the SoCal arts landscape. We currently offer over 240 classes in bladesmithing, blacksmithing, metalsmithing, metalworking, bronze casting, copper working and jewelry making.

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