Max Arellano
2021-09-07T12:03:56-07:00Phone: (510) 444-0919
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Max Arellano - Bio
I particularly enjoy working with people and learning new skills. I work well in teams, ask questions, and take initiative to find extra tasks rather than being idle. My interests are mainly biology, history, music history, particularly jazz and blues. My hobbies are blacksmithing, singing, and I am learning to play the guitar.
Lauren Bartlett
2021-10-05T11:36:36-07:00Phone: (510) 444-0919
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Lauren Bartlett - Bio
Lauren is a Bay Area native who grew up in Oakland. She has experience working with many fine art mediums and is currently studying printmaking at CCA (formerly CCAC). Her work focuses on memory, nature, and experimenting with the physical properties of print media.
She started taking classes at The Crucible in 2014 and wanted to try working at least once with all the materials. She was part of the Fuego program from 2019-2020 specializing in the leather department and continues to work with The Crucible.
Rowan Barbeau
2021-09-07T11:46:25-07:00Phone: (510) 444-0919
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Rowan Barbeau - Bio
While in high school, Rowan completed our Fuego Youth Leadership Program. When asked about continuing with metalworking, Rowan shared, “Long term, I’m definitely interested in becoming a Jeweler. Before I came here I never even thought about metalworking as something I could do with my life. I just want to do jewelry forever!” Now, Rowan is a teaching assistant in our Jewelry Department!
Avery Lockwood-Johnston
2024-09-10T15:47:18-07:00Phone: (510) 444-0919
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Avery Lockwood-Johnson - Bio
Avery completed our Fuego Youth Leadership Program from 2019-2020 in our studios, where they learned and taught their peers. “The Crucible helped me hone my skills and apply them to my forge at home to make more complicated things,” Avery told us. Avery is now one of the dozens of students who grew up taking Crucible classes that has now joined our faculty!
Eli Weinburd
2021-09-07T11:00:35-07:00Phone:
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Eli Weinburd - Bio
I became a bicycle mechanic through a series of community bike shops. I learned, volunteered, and found community at RUBARB in New Orleans ’ upper ninth ward, Catholic Worker’s Bike Cave in Duluth, Chainbreaks in Santa Fe, and Spokeland here in Oakland. My hope in teaching bicycle mechanics at The Crucible is to spread some of the joy I found in these places.
Darcy Nicholson
2021-09-07T10:44:34-07:00Phone: (510) 444-0919
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Darcy Nicholson - Bio
Darcy Nicholson is originally from the Bay Area and came back after spending five years in Chicago where they studied the visual arts, working towards a BFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They interned at the Field Museum of Chicago in the Entomology Department and a lot of their work is influenced by the lives of insects, along with celebrating nature and bringing to attention climate change awareness. Formerly a farm manager for Sanzuma Farms in San Rafael, which is dedicated to bringing farm-fresh food for low-income households in Marin, Darcy now works with Bay Bridge Solidarity cooking meals for homeless communities in the West Oakland area.
They work in jewelry making, scientific illustration rendered in watercolors, bike mechanics, permaculture farming, metalworking, stop motion animation among many other random things. Darcy was born in Marin County and grew up hanging out in Fairfax, California where multiple murals still exist that they completed during high school and college.
