Craft in America Center
The Center is free and open to the public. Walk-ins are welcome.
Contact us:
center@craftinamerica.org
Press inquiries:
press@craftinamerica.org
8415 W. Third St. Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 951-0610
Regular Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6pm
Parking:
Stacked parking is available for free directly behind the building. Additionally, street and metered parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood with restrictions. For longer events, pay-by-the-hour parking is also located one block west of the Center at the Beverly Connection.
Public Transport:
The Center is off the 16 / 17 / 218 L.A. Metro Bus Lines.
The Craft in America Center is a small museum and library that presents artist talks, scholarly lectures, hands-on workshops and concerts in addition to regularly changing exhibitions. Our publications offer a deeper dive into the practices of select artists and topics.
The Center works in tandem with the acclaimed PBS documentary series to give voice to traditional and contemporary craft, ranging from functional to purely conceptual. Being a brick and mortar venue, the Center provides the public an opportunity for direct personal engagement with art, artists and ideas.
The Craft in America Center produces 5-8 exhibitions a year, both on site and traveling. Exhibitions highlight the work of numerous Los Angeles craft-based artists while providing a local platform for the nation’s accomplished artists working across all craft media. For those not able to visit in-person, digitized exhibitions and recorded talks and interviews are archived online as resources for all to access.
The Center also operates an education outreach program, Craft in Schools, which offers standards-based art education for underrepresented LAUSD and public K-12 schools and local colleges. This program facilitates hands-on workshops, demonstrations, student field trips both at our Center and in schools.
About Craft in America
Support comes in part from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, culturela.org, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, www.lacountyarts.org, and the California Arts Council, arts.ca.gov, a state agency.