Museum of Craft & Folk Art

The Museum of Craft and Folk Art provides innovative exhibitions and educational programs that are designed to connect with and inspire diverse communities...demonstrating how folk art, contemporary craft, and fine art are all part of the same continuum.

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The Textile Blog: Lace Work of Dagobert Peche

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Movable Sterling Silver Scissors Necklace

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Join us on Thursday, March 3rd from 6-8pm for a Craft Bar featuring workshops by two local artists. Learn how to turn ordinary felt into a beautiful piece of wearable art with papercut artist, Jeeyon Shim. Jeeyon will be teaching a workshop on crafting a gorgeous felt bracelet using German papercutting techniques. Comics artist, Susie Cagle, will be teaching a primer in mini-comic book making. From script to bound book: write, draw, and assemble your own finished pocket-sized comic in about an hour.

Don't forget to take inspiration from the gallery and Museum gift-shop while you explore the creative process. Materials kindly provided by Simplicity. Drinks provided by Trumer Pils.

$5 admission includes materials, tips and tricks.

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We had another wonderful Make It @ MOCFA this past Saturday. Kids (and adults!) made Valentine's Day cards inspired by the artwork of Sister Corita, the subject of our current exhibition.

Stop by Saturday, February 26 from 11am-2pm for our next family-friendly crafternoon!

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set of 3 (by danstina)

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ah! another coffee mug sweater. I’m gonna make one of these! they’re so adorable!

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blue buttons

Gorgeous!

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Boston Terrior My favourite person is my dog by Eudoraeudora

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Beer Sweaters (by Tracy)

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*Tucking this clipboard idea away for later*

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rospa:

Bike Love Handmade Sterling Silver Necklace by Rachel by luckyduct

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Thomas Seir Cummings, A Mother’s Pearls (Portraits of the Artist’s Children), 1841. Watercolor on ivory. via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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new paintings finished, for more go here:

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This is brilliant.

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The MOCFA gallery will be closed until February 3rd while we install our new exhibit, E if for Everyone: Celebrating Sister Corita. The store will remain open, however, so please stop by and check out all the crafty goodness we have on offer.

And don't forget to stop by the evening of February 3rd for our opening event and craft bar super-combo! We'll be using Corita-imagery to make Valentine's Day-inspired cards and envelopes. It promises to be a busy night, so arrive there early and get down with your bad crafting self.

Excited? So are we! Check out the press release at MOCFA.org:

The Museum of Craft and Folk is proud to present an exhibition celebrating the life and influence of Sister Corita Kent. E is for Everyone: Celebrating Sister Corita (February 4—June 5, 2011) presents a vibrant selection of work by the legendary artist and teacher Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Included in the selection will be such iconic images asPower Up (1965), Tender (1964) and American Sampler (1969).  Considered a West-Coast Pop artist whose artistic practice was unconventional and unclassifiable, Sister Corita had an innovative penchant for blurring the boundaries between disparate art forms. This exhibition explores Corita’s influence as a charismatic teacher at the renowned Immaculate Heart College Art Department in Hollywood, CA, which attracted poets, inventors, filmmakers, designers and cultural luminaries such as Buckminster Fuller and John Cage in the 1960s. The focus of the exhibition is on seminal works from this period as well as her close personal and working relationship with Charles and Ray Eames through selected films, documentation and prints from the Eames Office in Los Angeles. A unique collaboration with Creative Growth, Oakland, features artist renditions of Corita’s serigraphs.