Craft Center

Come celebrate the refreshed Craft Center and check out the Maker Space showcase during our open house on February 15 from 9–11 a.m. While you're here, visit our other studios such as Ceramics, Wood, Glass, Screen printing, Photo, Welding, Flameworking and more. 

Summer class registration will begin June 26 at 12:30pm. 

 All classes will be available to everybody (students and community) online and in-person. 

Winter is here! 

Student priority registration opens January 8 at 12:30pm online and in-person.

Want something cozy, relaxing, inexpensive, and fun to do in quarantine? Come and learn how to knit! In this class, you will learn the absolute basics of knitting, including all of the necessary stitches, techniques, and skills you need to make your own projects.

As the Zentangle community says: Anything is possible, one stroke at a time! Join instructor Lee Miller in this fun class for beginning artists and those new to Zentangle.

Learn the basics of working with borosilicate or hard glass in this four-class tutorial. You will practice multiple decorative and coloring techniques as you complete several glass objects. Projects include pendants, marbles, and similar solid glass objects. No prior experience is necessary.

In this class students will learn how to use borosilicate or hard glass to make glass pendants. Students will be socially distanced in these in person classes and will follow all UC Davis COVID best practices. 

This class covers the foundational techniques of handbuilding, including pinch pots, coils, and slabs in addition to the firing process and glazing. It is ideal for beginners or anyone who is missing getting their hands on clay in this unprecedented time.

This Intermediate Handbuilding class will cover many methods of making pots that pour. We will start with a pinch pot and work our way through more complicated methods including coiling and building with slabs. There will be a focus on spouts, lids and handles, proportion, and functionality.

Ever been curious about the wild and wooly world of needle felting? Needle felting is a process of working the wool with a special needle where there are barbs on the lower part of the needle. These barbs will catch the wool fiber and tangle them up together.