Workshops
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Inspire your creativity, engage your senses, and expand your ideas.
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Upcoming Events
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Sunday, September 27, 2026, 1 PM; Saturday, October 17, 2026, 3 PM; Thursday, November 5, 2026, 3 PMWrenching News Workshops
Join artist Julia Goodman in creating Wrenching News, a collaborative artwork featured in Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, through the process of twisting and knotting newspapers according to Hassinger’s specifications.
Included with admission.
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Sunday, August 16, 1 PMPostcard Comics with Krusty Wheatfield
Brighten someone’s mailbox with a comics postcard this summer! Learn fun techniques for drawing your memories and communicating with text and image to create a colorful snapshot of your life for someone you love. Postage, drawing prompts, and materials will be provided. At the end of the workshop, join other participants in a celebratory walk to a postal dropbox.
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Saturday, September 26, 2026, 1 PMContemplative Salt Bath
Artist Beatriz Escobar leads participants through a contemplative salt bath experience, drawing inspiration from her floating practice to invite reflection on alternatives to modernity’s paradigms of determinacy and solutionism.
Included with admission.
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Sunday, October 18, 2026, 1 PMImprovisational Screenprinting
Artist Leon Wan leads participants through an experimental and improvisational approach to screenprinting, centering emotion and energy through spontaneous imprints of shape, pattern, and color rather than printing a single fixed image.
Space is limited; RSVP required.
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Sunday, November 8, 2026, 1 PMMapping Utopias
Educator, anthropologist, and community organizer Isa Prieto leads participants through a discussion and collective mapmaking activity exploring the idea of utopianism and the fragments of utopia that already live in our neighborhoods.
Space is limited; RSVP required.
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Sunday, November 15, 2026, 1 PMCommunal Land Care with TERREMOTO and Test Plot
Landscape architecture design studio TERREMOTO and nonprofit Test Plot discuss their approach to radical communal land care that cultivates beauty and biodiversity, and explore the belief that ecological and climate crises require a repairing of kinship with our lands and a return to the commons and to care.
Past Events
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Sunday, July 26, 1 PMCyanotype Animation with Lije
Experience the magic of animation in this mixed media, two-hour workshop. This workshop is a perfect blend of old-school analog chemistry and modern digital storytelling.
RSVPs are full. Check out our other Art Lab workshops→
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Sunday, September 27, 2026, 1 PM; Saturday, October 17, 2026, 3 PM; Thursday, November 5, 2026, 3 PMWrenching News Workshops
Join artist Julia Goodman in creating Wrenching News, a collaborative artwork featured in Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, through the process of twisting and knotting newspapers according to Hassinger’s specifications.
Included with admission.
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Sunday, July 12, 1 PMThe Future of Present Tense
Join us in the Art Lab to repurpose the printed materials freshly deinstalled from Stephanie Syjuco’s recent epic wall installation Present Tense (Roll Call). Expanding on the spirit of radical pedagogy central to her exhibition, Syjuco will offer examples of ways to transform this raw material into mini publications, encouraging participants to enjoy a free-form collage session with an exploded artwork.
Included with admission.
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Saturday, June 6, 1 PMCollaborative Comics Workshop
Come and bring a friend to the Art Lab for a collaborative comics workshop hosted by multimedia artist and photographer Karo Yagjian and independent comic Artist, Scott Longo (Sonatina Comics). Working in small groups we will create short free-form comics with a simple "call and response" style. Build wacky storylines with unexpected results using a variety of collage and drawing materials provided by the Art Lab! Perfect for breaking through creative blocks and letting go of results.
Included with gallery admission.
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Saturday, June 6, 1:30 PMMaren Hassinger Tributes and Wrenching News Workshop
For the opening of Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date, central figures in Hassinger’s life and career offer tributes to the artist and her ongoing legacy. Tributes will be given by artists, curators, and art historians including Linda Goode Bryant, Ava Hassinger, Kellie Jones, Leslie King-Hammond, Senga Nengudi, and Lowery Stokes Sims.
Following these remarks, Hassinger will lead the audience in a newspaper twisting workshop titled Wrenching News.
Tickets required.
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Sunday, May 10, 1 PMRethinking Abstraction: Chinese Calligraphy Workshop
Led by Peiting C. Li, Instructor of Chinese Calligraphy at the UC Berkeley Art Studio, this workshop introduces the fundamental techniques, materials, and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, focusing on the unique qualities that allow it to simultaneously represent the concrete and express the abstract. No knowledge of Chinese language is necessary.
Space is limited; RSVP required
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Sunday, April 19, 1 PMIntroduction to Risograph Workshop
Join local artist and Senior Art Lab Facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing. Risograph printing is known for being an accessible form of printmaking, offering artists the ability to create speedy, high-volume editions with loose but lush layers of color. All experience levels and ages are welcome.
RSVPs are full. Check out our other Art Lab workshops→
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Saturday, March 21, 1 PMStill Together
Still Together is a large-scale breathwork and reflection experience that transforms museum spaces into sanctuaries for collective calm. This ninety-minute program merges trauma-informed breathwork facilitation with reflection prompts accompanied by a live ambient soundscape, creating an immersive journey of individual insight and communal healing.
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Sunday, March 8, 1 PMGranulating Watercolors with Berkeley Painting Club
Explore granulating watercolors with artist Rene Smith of Berkeley Painting Club. Granulating watercolors are specially formulated with pigments that separate into different colors and textures when mixed with water. Make a painting and watch the magic happen. No experience required.
Ages 7 and up
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OngoingTheresa Hak Kyung Cha Special Print Mailer
Occasioned by the exhibition Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, BAMPFA’s Art Lab digs into the museum’s Cha archives to create a special edition risograph print mailing.
Sign up by March 1, 2026, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served)
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Sunday, February 22, 1 PMConcrete Poetry with Lindsay Choi
In this two-hour generative poetry workshop led by poet Lindsay Choi, discover a selection of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s concrete poetry, artist’s books, and performance pieces, taking inspiration from her work to generate drafts, notes, and other forms of new material.
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Sunday, February 8, 1 PMLight Catcher Workshop
Join Tara Baghdassarian for a workshop where photography and light meet ancestral memory. Create magical glass dream catchers inspired by MATRIX exhibition artist Andro Eradze’s surreal, dreamlike world.
Space is limited; RSVP required.