Explore color and design with SF street artist fnnch, view time-lapse videos of mural-making, play with stickers and adhesive vinyl, explore collaborative art and connect with exhibiting artists t.w.five. Craft your day with the whole family at MCD!

This May we get our inspiration from the Tom Loeser exhibition, Please Please Please. Explore the galleries while experiencing first-hand many of the techniques found in the exhibition, including sun print cyanotypes, hybrid furniture design and pyrography!

Please join us for this month’s MakeArt Family Day...  As always, we will be offering a number of exhibition related activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy!

Learn to grow your own crystals using household materials! You will start the process at MCD, then take your project home to watch grow. Explore other themes found in Raw Design using rocks and minerals to create small sculptures and play around with making weavings from found materials. Do you know what a cassette tape is?! You will after this event!

Its autumn and  MCD is celebrating the changing of the seasons with a number of exhibition-related activities inspired by Anchors in Time: Dominic DiMare. Visitors will explore thematic concepts and the use of natural materials in the art-making process. From paper-making to fly fishing lure design and watercolor play, the MakeArt Lab, parklet and galleries will be filled with hands-on projects harkening to the sea-borne aesthetic of Dominic DiMare.

This December the museum will be buzzing with holiday shoppers for the annual Dogpatch Holiday Sale! Get some of your gift purchasing out of the way, then swing by the MakeArt Lab to create a gingerbread-inspired ornament or pinch pot, design and make your own holiday wrapping paper. Museum admission and activities are free.