From hands-on art making to dance and meditation, our workshops will inspire your creativity, engage your senses, and expand your ideas.
Read full descriptionCollaborate with other workshop participants to create a performance, complete with costumes and props.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Cultivating a spirit of playful experimentation, participants will explore the intersection of language, image, and identity through freeform collage.
Make your own masks inspired by a variety of visual cultures, with a special focus on Mexico’s Día de los Muertos.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Meet members of the legendary activist troupe and learn the art of cantastoria, a form of street theater using song, movement, text, and puppetry.
Learn to create unique animations by painting, scratching, and collaging directly onto 16mm film.
Let the music move your imagination and make art and poetry with composer Anna Clyne.
Join in a creative response to civilian shootings by making clay sculptures of objects that police officers have mistaken for guns.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Make back patches and a communal banner in this workshop with artists Amanda Walters and Paulina Berczynski. Discover how undomesticated cloth can be!
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Join local designer and educator Tim Belonax to create Risograph-printed postcards in response to Way Bay 2.
Programmed by Denise Kan
Create a collaborative book based on poetry and imagery from Way Bay 2 in this workshop led by designer Mary Banas.
Programmed by Denise Kan
Explore the construction of identity, history, and nationhood through the lens of architectural monuments and ruins in this workshop with artists Maryam Yousif and Nick Makanna.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Learn about clay—both as a flexible artistic medium and as a resource that surrounds us in the local landscape—in this workshop with the Mutual Stores artist collective.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Join artists Chris Hamamoto and Jon Sueda and make symbols to contribute to a Bay Area flag symbol archive, then print your own personal flag.
Programmed by Denise Kan
Through participatory performance, storytelling, and recording, spend time exchanging histories and languages with other workshop members.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Try your hand at multiple embroidery techniques and walk away with a stitched sampler and a finished project!
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Discover how printed fabric can tell a story and learn how to print a repeating textile pattern.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Hang out with the Unity team for a day of zine making and free printing on the Art Lab Riso, with a DJ set and broadcast by Lower Grand Radio.
Tap into your inner diva and learn the basics of voguing in this intro dance class with San Francisco vogue legend Sir JoQ.
Exchange mail art with the artists of the San Quentin Prison Arts Program at this special all-day Art Lab event.
Bring a garment and use our fabric-marker stash to explore the expressive potential of your style. Get inspired by fashions from Creative Growth Art Center and groove to a DJ set by Chulita Vinyl Club.
Using cardboard and printed materials, work alongside artist Grace Rosario Perkins to create abstract or representational objects and contribute to a collaborative group sculpture.
Artist group Desi hosts a night of collaborative art making scored by celebrated Los Angeles–based DJ collective Discostan.