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Join us to celebrate the openings of exhibitions related to the Craft in America WEST episode. Cowboy Craft, features artwork made by bonafide members of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association.
Marques Hanalei Marzan: Entwine is a premiere solo exhibition of Marzan’s work on the mainland. The exhibition offers a rare chance to see his intricate work in person. Marzan will give an Artist Talk before the reception.
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The Artists Gallery (TAG) is a contemporary gallery located in the historic Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, California. The Gallery represents diverse Southern Californian, National & International artists featuring new exhibitions and events each month.
Founded in Santa Monica in 1993, The Artists Gallery is an artist-founded and operated not-for-profit arts cooperative. TAG’s mission encourages the free exploration of new media, techniques, styles, and content, to support artists and add culture to our community, and the world at large.
TAG is open for business Wednesday through Sunday.
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The ACGA Clay & Glass Festival returns to the Palo Alto Art Center on July 11–12, 2026, for two inspiring days of handmade clay and glass art, live demos, artist meet-and-greets, a pottery Throwdown, and more. With 130+ juried California artists, this is your chance to discover one-of-a-kind work and meet the makers behind it. Free admission, all weekend long.
📍 Palo Alto Art Center
🗓 Saturday & Sunday, July 11–12
⏰ 10 AM–5 PM
🎟 Free admission
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Free event! All ages & skill levels welcome! Join us for a full day of interactive crafting fun at Fiber Fest! You’re invited to celebrate sustainable fiber and craft at San Diego Craft Collective.
At Fiber Fest, enjoy a variety of free crafts, fun Make & Take crafts (for a small fee), local vendors, and live demonstrations, including sheep shearing, wool processing, spinning yarn, felting, weaving, knitting, crochet, natural dye, basket weaving, broom making, and more! See you there!
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All outside in the garden & courtyard
Featuring a Wide Selection of Pottery, Garden Sculpture + more
6 Ceramic artists:
- Jan Schachter
- Lindsay Marx
- Peggy Forman
- Jane Peterman
- Sally Jackson
- Nina Else
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Join Maryland potter and Pond Farmer Hunt Prothro for an extended tour + throwing demonstration+ talk at Pond Farm Pottery, a National Historic Landmark in Northern California’s coastal hills. Hunt will discuss surface and glaze effects of his teacher, Bauhaus-trained Master Potter Marguerite Wildenhain, and her influence on his own body of work.
9:30AM-12:30PM Saturday, May 16, 2025
Refreshments provided.
Cost: $35/person
Sponsored by Steward of the Coast and Redwoods
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Twice a year, in June and November, the San Diego Potters’ Guild turns the Spanish Village patio into a lively open‑air gallery, showcasing fresh work from members’ home studios.
The Spring Show runs 10am–5pm on Saturday and Sunday, offering a rare chance to meet the artists, explore new pieces, and talk with them about their craft.
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Material Remembrance explores the human desire for storytelling through fiber art, featuring work by Cameron Taylor-Brown and Aneesa Shami Zizzo.
Both artists create abstracted imagery referencing historic places and personal memory using textile materials, showing deep commitment to their craft and the mastery of technique that speaks to the breadth of their experiences.
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Stop, Drop, + Pose: Clay in Motion traces the evolution of clay as a time-based medium, from one of the earliest efforts in The Sculptor’s Nightmare (1908) to early television and experimental theater, to contemporary artists pushing the material into new territories of video, performance, and moving image.
While early animation popularized clay’s elasticity, today’s artists investigate its fragility, resistance, and intimacy.
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In Conversation: Saturday, April 11th at 2pm
Sarah Amos
Reception: 3-5:30pm
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In Conversation: Saturday, April 11th, 2pm
Julia Couzens
Reception 3-5:30pm
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Los Angeles Basketry Guild and Misti Washington Gourd & Basket Guild proudly present a special class with Marsha Orr in the San Diego Area.
Using round reed and a variety of other materials, such as jute, sisal and twine, if desired, students will learn weaving and design techniques including triple-twining and chase weave and will use a bisque-fired pottery piece for the core of their basket.
Class in San Diego Area
(El Cajon, CA 92021)
Sunday, April 26, 2026 – 9:00am-4:00pm
~LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS ~
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In this hands-on workshop, led by AMOCA Artist in Residence Bianca MacPherson, students will explore the intersection of personal reference, conceptual thinking, and large-scale handbuilding in clay.
Using their own ideas, experiences, and visual references as a foundation, participants will investigate abstraction as a personal code or visual language.
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In-person and online talk with scholar Lorne Platt on the evolution of skateboarding environments in suburban developments. Platt’s studies focus on urban history, city planning, and cultural geography.
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In-person and online talk by Todd Huber, skateboard historian and founder of the International Skateboarding Hall of Fame on the DIY origins of the skateboard.
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