Ready to dive deeper? Join our community of master artisans, cultural stewards, and creative practitioners exploring the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary life. Classes, intensives, and ceremonial gatherings across LA and online for artists, designers, crafters, illustrators, and makers of all backgrounds and levels. Our programs unite ancient wisdom with contemporary practice, cultivating living heritage through embodied craft, storytelling through making, communion with nature, cultural preservation, meditative practice, and the celebration of life's luminous beauty.
For Pasadena Art Night, Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief (free)
Join us for a series of events hosted by @_shagho (she/her) artist and community facilitator, exploring Ernest Batchelder's ornamental legacy through nature's hidden patterns. Eucalyptus seed pods crack into star forms, California live oak acorns nest in textured caps, and Anna's hummingbird throats flash ruby coin-sized patches—patterns waiting for hands working clay, paper, leather, and found materials.
For LA Design Weekend, Downstream Prophecy: What Serves The Current Canvas (free)
Join us for a contemplative workshop hosted by @folk.lounge to create a social textile with cross stitch embroidery exploring the natural rhythms of release and renewal. A practice of memory editing as we navigate seasonal transitions.
Talk For The Wende, In Linen and Lamplight: The Secret Lives of Slavic Needlework (free)
Join us for an intimate workshop with @folk.lounge, where we'll uncover the forgotten art of reading cloth like ancient text. In quiet rooms, Slavic women once transformed ordinary linen into powerful talismans, weaving protection and blessings into the very fabric of daily life.
For LA Design Festival, Open Archives: Art, Access, And The Stories Of Los Angeles Panel (free)
Join us for an engaging panel with The Wende Museum, The Huntington & Museum Of Latin American Art moderated by @folk.lounge, to explore how the public can access and engage with LA's rich archival treasures.
Talk For The Wende, Pixels To Petals: How Ancient Symbols Travel Through Time And Technology (free)
Join us for a vibrant workshop with @folk.lounge, to explore the rich tradition of floral cross stitch in Soviet and Russian culture, focusing particularly on roses and flowers as symbols of transformation and potential.
Talk For Mycoverse, Mushroom Spirits (free)
Join us Monday for an enchanted evening in the world of fungal folklore with @folk.lounge. Immerse yourself in an exploration of the mysterious beings that have emerged from forest floors throughout human history.
