Classes at The Crucible

Learn Industrial Arts at The Crucible with great classes that will set your imagination on fire!

If you’ve always wanted to weld, work with glass, make jewelry, dance with fire, pour bronze, or learn other industrial arts, you’ve found the right place. At The Crucible, beginners are encouraged, and no experience is necessary. You can safely learn the skills you need while working on projects.

If you’re an experienced artist or craftperson wanting to develop new skills, you can enroll in advanced classes—and take advantage of opportunities to use The Crucible’s facility and equipment. Enrolling in a Studio Access Lab gives you access to our equipment so that you can work on your own projects.

Our hands-on classes average one instructor for every six students, guaranteeing that every student receives personal attention. Our expert instructors have extensive real-world experience and a passion for what they teach.

• Download our current catalog for descriptions, dates, and times of all the classes offered this session.
• Visit our online store to read descriptions, dates, and times of specific classes. Here, you can register for classes and studio access labs.
• Visit our online store to purchase tickets for Crucible events or a Crucible membership, which let you register for classes early and gives you discounts on classes.

CERAMICS                                                                      

Creative Clay Exploration for Parent & Child (3-5 Years)
Feb 11- Apr 1 | Wednesdays | 3 - 4PM | with Tachina Rudman                       
Enjoy this special time together as you gently explore the world of clay using art and fun simple movements. sign up now

Clay Together for Parent & Child (5-7 Years)                                                            
Feb 11- Apr 1 | Wednesdays | 4-5:30PM | with Tachina Rudman
Take off together into a world of clay and fun. You'll build magical creatures and worlds for them to explore, pinch pots, make masks and more. sign up now   

JEWELRY                                                                       

Viking Knit with Art Silver Clay
March 7 - 8 | Sat & Sun | 10AM – 2PM | with Arlene Hildebrand Mornick
Form a silver wire bracelet using the ancient art of Viking Knit, one of the oldest known forms of knitting, a looping technique that pre-dates traditional knitting by centuries. sign up now

Enameled Beads
April 4 - 5 | Sat & Sun | 10AM – 5PM | with Rodney Kessler
This class uses preformed shapes, tubing and shapes you fabricate from copper or fine silver. Coating with dry sifted and liquid enamels develops colors and designs, then enhances with foils, seed beads and decals for beads that can be components in larger pieces or stand on there own. sign up now

WELDING                                                                       

Sculpt the Human Form with Welded Metal
Jan 31 - Mar 8 | Sat & Sun | 10AM - 1PM | with Pierre Riche
You will be shown how to construct an anatomically correct skeletal framework as an armature. Once the armature is established you will learn how to model and sculpt volume and mass to achieve desired results. You'll leave this class with a dynamic welded metal human form sculpture. sign up now

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If you have any trouble please give us a call at 510.444.0919 (Monday to Friday 10-7), and we'll be happy to help you.