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**Sold Out**MCD Special Curator Walk-Through: Linda Gass + The Bay Trail

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

Step out from the exhibition and straight into the subject matter with this Special Curator Walk-Through, exploring beauty and sea level rise along the Dogpatch Bay Trail!

Step out from the exhibition and straight into the subject matter with this Special Curator Walk-Through, exploring beauty and sea level rise along the Dogpatch Bay Trail!

Curator Walk Through: Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience

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

Curator Walkthrough: Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience, Feb 27, 2020, 6 PM – 8:30 PM. Join guest curator Randy Jayne Rosenberg for an exhibition walk-through and conversation exploring adaptable and sustainable housing in the age of climate change.

Curator Walkthrough: Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience, Feb 27, 2020, 6 PM - 8:30 PM. Join guest curator Randy Jayne Rosenberg for an exhibition walk-through and conversation exploring adaptable and sustainable housing in the age of climate change.

MAKE: February

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

MAKE: February, Feb 20, 2020, 6 PM – 9 PM. This February, interact with hands-on projects, community discussions and film that support current MCD exhibition Linda Gass: and then this happened….

MAKE: February, Feb 20, 2020, 6 PM - 9 PM. This February, interact with hands-on projects, community discussions and film that support current MCD exhibition Linda Gass: and then this happened….

*Cancelled* MCD Design Lab Happy Hour: Aplat Zero Waste

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

Design Lab Happy Hour: Aplat Zero Waste, Feb 7, 2020, 6 PM – 9 PM. Join MCD to learn more about the creative process behind this thoughtful, local company, and to try your hand at creating your own accessories from offcut industrial production. 

Design Lab Happy Hour: Aplat Zero Waste, Feb 7, 2020, 6 PM - 9 PM. Join MCD to learn more about the creative process behind this thoughtful, local company, and to try your hand at creating your own accessories from offcut industrial production. 

MCD Free First Tuesday: February

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

MCD Free First Tuesday, Feb 4, 2020, 11 AM – 3 PM. As part of daylong Free First Tuesdays, visit a valentines artmaking workshop 11 AM – 3 PM.

MCD Free First Tuesday, Feb 4, 2020, 11 AM - 3 PM. As part of daylong Free First Tuesdays, visit a valentines artmaking workshop 11 AM - 3 PM.

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MCD MakeArt Family Day: February

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

MakeArt Family Day, Feb 1, 2020, 11 AM – 3 PM. Join MCD for the first MakeArt Family Day of 2020 to experience a variety of exhibition related activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy.

MakeArt Family Day, Feb 1, 2020, 11 AM - 3 PM. Join MCD for the first MakeArt Family Day of 2020 to experience a variety of exhibition related activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy.

MAKE x In/Visible Talks

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

MCD MAKE x In/Visible Talks, Jan 16, 2020, 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM. Take part in a range of crafts and design projects for the first MAKE of the year.

MCD MAKE x In/Visible Talks, Jan 16, 2020, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM. Take part in a range of crafts and design projects for the first MAKE of the year.

MCD Free First Tuesday: January

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

MCD Free First Tuesday: January, January 7, 2020. View new exhibitions and create stab-bound calendars.

MCD Free First Tuesday: January, January 7, 2020. View new exhibitions and create stab-bound calendars.

MCD Member Preview: Winter Exhibitions

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

MCD Members See It First! MCD Members are invited to a special preview of our 2019 Winter exhibitions Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience and Linda Gass: and then this happened… on Wednesday, December…

MCD Members See It First! MCD Members are invited to a special preview of our 2019 Winter exhibitions Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience and Linda Gass: and then this happened... on Wednesday, December...

MCD’s Member Holiday Shopping Weekend

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

Mark your calendars for MCD’s Member Holiday Shopping Weekend!  Friday, December 13 through Sunday, December 15, MCD members receive 20% off all full-priced items in our museum store or online with…

Mark your calendars for MCD’s Member Holiday Shopping Weekend!  Friday, December 13 through Sunday, December 15, MCD members receive 20% off all full-priced items in our museum store or online with...

Style ’19

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

Style ’19 takes place December 7-8 at MCD and just in time for the holidays! Now in its 13th year, Style (with its 2nd year at MCD) is a show,…

Style '19 takes place December 7-8 at MCD and just in time for the holidays! Now in its 13th year, Style (with its 2nd year at MCD) is a show,...

Museum Store Sunday

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

Museum Store Sunday is a one-day-only shopping event at museum stores worldwide that offers meaningful and carefully curated gift options, along with exclusive discounts and pop-up events. Shop at the Museum of Craft and Design and get 20% off all ceramics in our museum store and online with code CERAMICS. And if that wasn’t incentive enough, it is the last day to see our exhibitions Interior/Exterior and Dead Nuts: a search for the ultimate machined object, before they close!

Museum Store Sunday is a one-day-only shopping event at museum stores worldwide that offers meaningful and carefully curated gift options, along with exclusive discounts and pop-up events. Shop at the Museum of Craft and Design and get 20% off all ceramics in our museum store and online with code CERAMICS. And if that wasn't incentive enough, it is the last day to see our exhibitions Interior/Exterior and Dead Nuts: a search for the ultimate machined object, before they close!

MAKE x Palette

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

It’s all about food and gratitude at the final MAKE of 2019! 

It’s all about food and gratitude at the final MAKE of 2019! 

Sold Out**Designing Change: An Evening with Roman Mars

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

Join the Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) for the second installment of their Designing Change series, featuring host and creator of 99% Invisible, Roman Mars. On November 14, 2019, MCD will welcome Roman Mars, to Minnesota Street Project for a multi-media presentation examining the unnoticed design that shapes our world.

Join the Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) for the second installment of their Designing Change series, featuring host and creator of 99% Invisible, Roman Mars. On November 14, 2019, MCD will welcome Roman Mars, to Minnesota Street Project for a multi-media presentation examining the unnoticed design that shapes our world.

MCD Trunk Show: Babette Pinksy

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

Shop our next MCD Trunk show in our award winning museum store on Saturday, November 9–featuring artist Babette Pinksy of BPJEWELER! BPJEWELER started about a year and a half ago…

Shop our next MCD Trunk show in our award winning museum store on Saturday, November 9–featuring artist Babette Pinksy of BPJEWELER! BPJEWELER started about a year and a half ago...

MCD Free First Tuesday: November

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

Celebrate gratitude with a Dead Nuts-inspired wreath, bedecked with hanging tokens of thanks. Learn simple metal stamping techniques, then string decorated discs from hose clamps to add to a festive, hangable wall centerpiece.

 

Celebrate gratitude with a Dead Nuts-inspired wreath, bedecked with hanging tokens of thanks. Learn simple metal stamping techniques, then string decorated discs from hose clamps to add to a festive, hangable wall centerpiece.

 

MCD Members Tour: David Cole and Nemo Gould Studios

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

Join the Museum of Craft and Design in Oakland to tour the studios of kinetic sculptor Nemo Gould and David Cole, guest curator of Dead Nuts: a search for the ultimate machined object on view at MCD through December 1, 2019.

Join the Museum of Craft and Design in Oakland to tour the studios of kinetic sculptor Nemo Gould and David Cole, guest curator of Dead Nuts: a search for the ultimate machined object on view at MCD through December 1, 2019.

MakeArt Family Day: Gratitude

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

Come celebrate the season with a cornucopia of creative projects, including a handmade stamp and thank-you note station, wearable “vision board” buttons, gyroscope races and Design-Your-Own ball bearing mazes. 

Come celebrate the season with a cornucopia of creative projects, including a handmade stamp and thank-you note station, wearable “vision board” buttons, gyroscope races and Design-Your-Own ball bearing mazes. 

MCD Machinist Bar: Artistic Soldering Techniques

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

MCD Machinist Bar: Artistic Soldering Techniques, October 26, 2019 11 AM – 3 PM. Join metal artist Jack da Silva to learn artistic soldering techniques and produce small wearable and functional art. Free with museum admission and available for participants 12 and up.

MCD Machinist Bar: Artistic Soldering Techniques, October 26, 2019 11 AM - 3 PM. Join metal artist Jack da Silva to learn artistic soldering techniques and produce small wearable and functional art. Free with museum admission and available for participants 12 and up.

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