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MakeArt Family Day

MakeArt Family Day

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

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!

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!

MCD Free First Tuesday

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Tour Raw Design then explore color, form and texture in the MakeArt Lab while constructing a sculpture informed by Marléne Huissoud’s “Of Insects and Men.”

Tour Raw Design then explore color, form and texture in the MakeArt Lab while constructing a sculpture informed by Marléne Huissoud’s “Of Insects and Men.”

MCD Community MakeArt: Salesforce Transit Center Grand Opening + Block Party

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Mark the Transit Center grand opening and the spirit of travel by creating a double-sided pennant  professing your hometown love combined with some SF pride!

Mark the Transit Center grand opening and the spirit of travel by creating a double-sided pennant  professing your hometown love combined with some SF pride!

MAKE: August

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Get prepared for Burning Man at MAKE!
Use a technique from the Playa Fairy herself to make jewelry you can gift to all your new friends. Plus, create a fanny pack fit to hold all of your essentials while keeping your hands free for dancing and bike-riding. Don’t forget to craft a found-fabric dust mask and BRC-worthy shades to keep you comfortable in all elements!

Get prepared for Burning Man at MAKE!
Use a technique from the Playa Fairy herself to make jewelry you can gift to all your new friends. Plus, create a fanny pack fit to hold all of your essentials while keeping your hands free for dancing and bike-riding. Don’t forget to craft a found-fabric dust mask and BRC-worthy shades to keep you comfortable in all elements!

MCD Library MakeArt: Backpack Bling

Potrero Branch Library 20th Street, San Francisco

Backpack Bling is back just in time to start school in style!

Backpack Bling is back just in time to start school in style!

MCD Community MakeArt: Monday Night Makers

Salesforce Park 1st St and Minna St, San Francisco

Mondays in August! MCD is presenting FREE evening craft activities at the Salesforce Rooftop Park.

Mondays in August! MCD is presenting FREE evening craft activities at the Salesforce Rooftop Park.

MCD Free First Tuesday

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Get your fill of our current exhibitions, then come by to the MakeArt Lab where we will be exploring a sculptural soap carving project inspired by Judy Kensley McKie!

Get your fill of our current exhibitions, then come by to the MakeArt Lab where we will be exploring a sculptural soap carving project inspired by Judy Kensley McKie!

MCD Members Tour: Dependable Letterpress

Dependable Letterpress 1192 Illinois Street, San Francisco

Join us for an exclusive tour and printing demonstration from MCD neighbor Dependable Letterpress! Owner and founder Joel Benson will discuss current day uses of letterpress printing and share techniques and processes used by his team to produce prints of the highest level of craftsmanship.

Join us for an exclusive tour and printing demonstration from MCD neighbor Dependable Letterpress! Owner and founder Joel Benson will discuss current day uses of letterpress printing and share techniques and processes used by his team to produce prints of the highest level of craftsmanship.

MCD Community MakeArt: Sunday Streets • Western Addition

Western Addition Fillmore and Fulton St, San Francisco

MCD honors the 10 year anniversary of Sunday Streets with vintage magazine badges! Peruse an assortment of periodicals from the archives and create a wearable snapshot of the past. We’ll see you there!

MCD honors the 10 year anniversary of Sunday Streets with vintage magazine badges! Peruse an assortment of periodicals from the archives and create a wearable snapshot of the past. We’ll see you there!

MCD Library MakeArt: ¡Viva México!

San Francisco Public Library - Mission Bay 960 4th St, San Francisco, California

¡Viva México! In the spirit of Mexican Independence day, join MCD at Mission Bay Branch Library to make the colorful Mexican paper craft known as papel picado.

¡Viva México! In the spirit of Mexican Independence day, join MCD at Mission Bay Branch Library to make the colorful Mexican paper craft known as papel picado.

Museum of Craft and Design Member Trip to Portugal

MCD Member trip to Portugal *Sold Out*

*This MCD member event is sold out* September 18–28, 2018 Couples $6,400/person and Singles $6,650/person With its thriving arts scene, Portugal is home to major art museums as well as…

*This MCD member event is sold out* September 18–28, 2018 Couples $6,400/person and Singles $6,650/person With its thriving arts scene, Portugal is home to major art museums as well as...

MAKE: September

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Carissa Potter is our guest artist for September MAKE and the inspiration behind our crafts for the evening, including DIY books, vision zines, and custom illustrated postcards from her book, “It’s OK to Feel Things Deeply.”

Carissa Potter is our guest artist for September MAKE and the inspiration behind our crafts for the evening, including DIY books, vision zines, and custom illustrated postcards from her book, "It's OK to Feel Things Deeply."

MCD Community MakeArt: Sunday Streets • Tenderloin

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Join MCD in celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Sunday Streets with vintage magazine badges! Peruse an assortment of periodicals from the archives and create a wearable snapshot of the past.

Join MCD in celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Sunday Streets with vintage magazine badges! Peruse an assortment of periodicals from the archives and create a wearable snapshot of the past.

MCD Community MakeArt: Kids Carnival

Palace of Fine Arts 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco

Come to the Palace of Fine Arts for their first FREE Kids Carnival where MCD will be making juggling balls out of balloons!

Come to the Palace of Fine Arts for their first FREE Kids Carnival where MCD will be making juggling balls out of balloons!

MCD Free First Tuesday

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Get FREE admission to our museum and join in on a craft for our monthly Free First Tuesday!

Get FREE admission to our museum and join in on a craft for our monthly Free First Tuesday!

MakeArt Family Day

MakeArt Family Day

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

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.

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.

MCD Curator Walk-Through: Signe Mayfield + Dominic DiMare

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Guest curator Signe Mayfield leads an informal program on the unique and incredibly detailed works of  Dominic Di Mare, as seen in the exhibition and publication Anchors In Time: Dominic Di Mare.

Guest curator Signe Mayfield leads an informal program on the unique and incredibly detailed works of  Dominic Di Mare, as seen in the exhibition and publication Anchors In Time: Dominic Di Mare.

MCD Community MakeArt: Sunday Streets • Excelsior

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

MCD honors the 10 year anniversary of Sunday Streets with vintage magazine badges! Peruse an assortment of periodicals from the archives and create a wearable snapshot of the past. We’ll see you there!

MCD honors the 10 year anniversary of Sunday Streets with vintage magazine badges! Peruse an assortment of periodicals from the archives and create a wearable snapshot of the past. We’ll see you there!

MAKE: October

Museum of Craft and Design 2569 3rd St, San Francisco

Celebrate the spookier side of Raw Design with an evening creating “In Cold Blood” beeswax candles, wall-mounted mythical creature skulls and never-rot foam pumpkin decor for our third Thursday event, MAKE!

Celebrate the spookier side of Raw Design with an evening creating “In Cold Blood” beeswax candles, wall-mounted mythical creature skulls and never-rot foam pumpkin decor for our third Thursday event, MAKE!

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