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East Bay Mini Maker Faire Meetup & Project Sneak Peek

2018-03-01T14:32:38-08:00

If you just can’t wait for the East Bay Mini Maker Faire (coming to Oakland on October 14, 2014), then come on down to The Crucible on July 29, 2014 to hang out in our studios and meet a few local makers who will be presenting some of the projects they are working on ahead of the faire.

The event will begin at 6:30 pm with a tour of the our 56,000 sq foot warehouse and studios. East Bay Mini Maker Faire organizer, Sabrina Merlo, will start off the Town Hall speaking about the faire which celebrates its fifth year in 2014. Project presentations will follow. Throughout the event guests can enjoy a complimentary bar inside, and there are even rumors of a food truck joining the party outside.

After the presentations there will be time for mixing with the wonderful maker community, so bring your curiosity and ideas and join us for a sneak preview of one of the East Bay’s coolest annual happenings.

East Bay Mini Maker Faire Kick-Off and Meetup
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
6:30-9:30 pm
The Crucible, 1260 7th St, Oakland

Photo credit: East Bay Maker Faire

Photo credit: Make Magazine

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Twenty-Three Youth Summer Camp Spots Left

2017-11-08T14:46:42-08:00

July 27 — August 1

Next week is the final week of youth summer camps. We still have 23 spots available in the following sessions (roll over class link for a popup of the description):

mornings: 9 am — 12 noon

MIG Welding (12-17) $385
Fashion Forward (8-12) $270
Intro to Welded Sculpture (12-17) $345
Clay Critters (8-11) $260
Creatures in Fused Glass (12-17) $345

afternoons: 1 pm — 4 pm

MIG Welding (12-17) $385

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Tools to Table Open House

2017-11-08T14:48:15-08:00

Tools to Table: Fall Open House

Saturday, September 10, 2016 | noon-5pm

Celebrate and explore the tools and techniques of creating and consuming food and drink! Tools to Table will feature over a dozen areas of interest: featured food and spirit vendors, creative collaborations, and onstage demonstrations. Guests will catch amazing fiery performances, see exciting demos in our studios, and explore our student and faculty art show displaying the creativity of The Crucible artist community as it relates to tools and utensils.

Our themed Open House events are a great way to learn more about our 56,000 square foot studio and seasonal class offerings.

James Syhabout Jeff Pringle This year, we are thrilled to announce that our neighbor, James Syhabout, Oakland born and reared, acclaimed chef of two-star Michelin-rated chef of Commis and Hawker Fare will be joining us for a butchery demonstration at 4pm. Chef James is working with a local bladesmith, Jeff Pringle, to create a custom hand forged knife as part of the collaboration and celebration of Tools to Table. Chef James will butcher a 35-pound pig, which will be donated to St. Vincent de Paul. In addition, Hawker Fare and Commis will be selling pork buns and garlic rosemary peanuts!

Billy Hiebert will be making candy molds for limited edition cast chocolate coins by Jordan Michael Schuster. Billy is a “sculpturally committed” artist with a lifelong dedication to integrating the processes, materials, techniques, and activities related to clay modeling, molding, casting, and carving. Bay area native, Jordan was long ago nicknamed “Really Wonka” in homage to his penchant for producing chocolatey mischief and glorious delectables in equal measure.

Adam Lamoreaux, our neighbor at the Beer Shed, will be serving a few of his favorite beers in glassware sandblasted by Daniel Stauber. After founding Linden Street Brewery in 2009, Adam, with wife Alice, have been part of countless community projects, social gatherings, and civic services. As The Crucible’s Workshops Manager, Daniel brings together teams of people to create something in the industrial arts. A portion of sales will be contributed to The Crucible.

On the main stage:

12:30pm: Fire Performance: Lara Hopwood and Shaina Johnson
1pm: Flameworking demonstration: Michael Dickinson
2:30pm: Fire Performance: Lara Hopwood and Shaina Johnson
3pm: Cocktail demonstration: Roya Spirit signature cocktail with mixologist Erica Compton
4pm: Bladesmithing and butchery demonstration Chef James Syhabout and Jeff Pringle

All studios will be doing demonstrations, including:

Cocktail glasses made in our glass blowing department
Pedal-powered smoothies with a bicycle blender
Butchering demonstration on the main stage
Waffle-making in our foundry with a special Crucible-designed sandcast waffle iron
Hammered forks and spoons in the smithy
Chocolate casting in our moldmaking studio
Fire performance

Learning opportunities, interactive activities, and artful displays:

Art gallery walk
Unveiling of our pre-apprentice

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Youth On Fire: Fireside Lounge

2018-03-15T14:20:36-07:00

The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge is an intimate evening of art, industry, community, and entertainment. This exclusive engagement takes place in The Crucible’s studio and highlights our extraordinary art programs.

Bring the whole family to explore the creative passions of young artists and the educational opportunities available at The Crucible, including summer camp classes, internships, and apprenticeship programs.

Public Art Project:

Come see students from Local Oakland high schools in action as they create a kinetic bicycle welded sculpture.

Apprentice Program:

Unveiling of the City Slicker Project designed by our youth apprentices.

Youth Poet Laureates:

Join finalists from the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate program and current Laureate, Sophie Elkin, for a spectacular night of youth poetry.

Participating  Departments:

Foundry
Moldmaking
Welding
Blacksmithing
Bike
Textiles
Wood

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Call for Art: The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge

2018-03-15T13:00:15-07:00

Art show: Precious Metal

On Friday, May 9th The Crucible is hosting an art exhibition largely featuring our metal departments. This Fireside Lounge will focus its demonstrations on foundry, kinetics and electronics, machining, hot wheels, bikes, welding (MIG, TIG, Oxy, Stick), paper & textiles, and fire effects. If you work in any of these media please submit your art for the event’s art exhibit in the central event space. The submission process is open to anyone involved with The Crucible: students, faculty, volunteers, studio renters, Create Program members, staff, etc.

The deadline for submitting art is Sunday, May 4th, at midnight. The submission form is attached, available in the office and online on the fireside lounge page. The important times and dates are below. Contactdaniel@thecrucible.org if you require an alternative drop off time.

Thank you. We look forward to seeing your artwork on display at The Crucible’s Fireside Lounge Art Show: Precious Metal.

Important Dates

Sunday May 4th Submission Deadline midnight
Tuesday May 6th Acceptance notification
Wednesday May 7th Art Drop off 4-8pm
Thursday May 8th Art Drop off 10am-2pm
Friday May 9th Fireside Lounge Exhibit 6:30-9:30pm
Friday May 9th Art Pick up 9:30-10pm
Saturday May 10th Art Pick up 10am-12pm

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2014 Soiree

2018-12-13T11:36:12-08:00

Saturday, April 26, 2014 | 6–11 pm

Directions

Join us for an artistic evening, theatrically directed by The Crucible’s founder, guest, and soirée honoree Michael Sturtz. This 15th anniversary celebration includes a delicious dinner, live and silent auctions of collectible pieces from contemporary industrial artists, and dazzling displays of the work that has made The Crucible so compelling since 1999. Your purchase of a ticket or table helps to keep our youth and adult industrial arts education programs thriving, and is partially tax-deductible.

THE 2014 FIRE AND LIGHT SOIREE HAS SOLD OUT
You can still make a donation here.

Thank you to our sponsors (partial list updated daily)

PLATINUM $25,000

GOLD $12,500

Christopher Bently

SILVER $5,000

AB&I Foundry
Lapis Group, Inc.
Renee Ventimiglia

Featuring performances by:

Aziz
Ben Burke
Brendan Barthel
Danielle O’Dea
Dwoira Galilea Scheffer
David Glowacki
Herringbone Orchestra
Janine Fondiller
Kinetic Arts Center
Stanford Aerial Arts
The Von Stilt Family
Trapeze Arts’ Performance Company: Les Aerielles
Womack and Bowman
Superstars of The Crucible Faculty
Theatrically directed by Michael Sturtz

BRONZE $2,500

Lauren & Steve Adams
Warren Breslau & Frances Hellman
CASS, Inc.
Bill and Matt Ciaschini
Jeremy Crandell
Lori & Skip Fogarty
Hondoman & The Phoenix
Elizabeth Meier
NetTempo, Inc.
Charles Olson & Yoko Watanabe
One PacificCoast Bank, FSB
John A. Samuels
Schnitzer Steel
David Shulman
The Tagami Family, CCIG, and Oakland Global Rail Enterprise
Pasha and Laney Thornton

INDIVIDUAL $250

Auction Items

Detailed views of auction items are available in the PDF below. To place pre-auction bids on items, please contact Lauren Ekman.

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Fireside Lounge, featuring Mark Growden’s The Calling All Choir

2018-03-15T13:34:38-07:00

Friday, January 31, 2014

6:30 pm — 10:30 pm

Musical performance begins at 8 pm

$20 at the door / Free for Crucible members

Buy Tickets

Our January 31st Fireside Lounge will feature the season finale performance by The Calling All Choir, directed by artist, performer and musician Mark Growden. The musical performance will begin at 8 pm.

Enjoy an art show showcasing the Jewelery, Ceramics, Blacksmithing, Stone Carving, Mold Making and Woodworking departments with works by The Crucible’s faculty, students, studio renters, volunteers and other affiliated artists.

The Crucible faculty and students will be on hand to answer questions, display original works, and provide live demonstrations in disciplines including moldmaking, ceramics, blacksmithing, jewelry, stone working, woodworking, fire performance, and others.

Register for a class during the Fireside Lounge are receive a 20% discount on tuition (25% for members). Become a Crucible member today.

The Crucible’s Fireside Lounges are an opportunity to visit our studio space and experience a more intimate evening with our creative community, highlighting our extraordinary art programs.

Fireside Lounge, featuring Mark Growden’s The Calling All Choir2018-03-15T13:34:38-07:00

Hot Couture Dazzles and Inspires the Community

2018-03-08T13:05:29-08:00

With the fashion back on hangers, the runway disassembled and the fire poofers put away (for now), we wanted to take a moment and thank The Crucible community for helping make our second Hot Couture fashion show even hotter, more creative and dynamic than we dared imagine.

We could not have put on two sold-out nights of fashion, fire and industry without the talents of our featured design teams including Alex Glowaski, Annamarta Dostourian, Avant Vouge, Bonde, Erin Mahoney and O’Lover Hats, Coyote Counter Collective, Heather Wakefield, Jeaneen Brunck, Latex Fashionistas, and SENSOREE Design Lab. Thanks to Bianca Starr Productions there was a method to our madness which showed off beautifully on the recycled aluminum stage donated by CASS.

Jeaneen Brunck design. Photo by Chris Willis. We are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support from the press which included a front page feature of the San Francisco Chronicle Style Section. Hot Couture was also the Editor’s Pick at Diablo Magazine, East Bay Express and Flavorpill, and enjoyed positive reviews from Oakland Magazine, Oakland North, Oakland Local, Mercury News, Makezine Blog, Fecal Face, Examiner and Just Luxe Living.

Were you inspired by what you saw at Hot Couture? Want to learn sewing basics? We have a class for that! How about lighting up your wardrobe with LEDs for the summer party season? We can help you demystify that Light Emitting Diode. Want to make fashion forward jewelry? Learn to design, anneal and shape a special piece, which until now only existed in your imagination. Or perhaps you want to get up on stage and dance with fire? – You’ll want to sign up for a Fire Performance class where you can learn to hoop, spin and even eat fire.

Come and join the fun!

Photo on right by Chris Willis. Jeaneen Brunck design.

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Experience “Wild Tales” At Hot Couture 2014

2018-03-01T14:51:38-08:00

We are extremely excited to showcase the wild and imaginative designs of local artists Angelique Benicio and Tansy Brooks at Hot Couture 2014. The multimedia costume designs with a “Wild Tales” theme have been created by Angelique Benicio with glass and metal accents by Tansy Brooks.

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Hot Couture 2014 Nightly Runway Shows

2018-03-08T13:04:56-08:00

Hot Couture 2013. Design by Jeaneen Brunck, back with new designs in 2014!

On each night of The Crucible’s Hot Couture 2014 your ticket will let you experience three distinct runway shows. Each multidisciplinary performance will feature first-ever public viewings of stunning, cutting edge looks, and fire effects on the swirling fibonacci runway especially built for this event in our 56,000 sq. ft. West Oakland warehouse. Don’t miss a moment!

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