Craft Contemporary Museum Admissions
Tuesday, August 11, 2026, All Day; additional 29 dates below.
Located on Los Angeles’ historic Miracle Mile since 1965, Craft Contemporary reveals the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower.
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tierra (May 31 - October 25)
It names what is beneath, what is held, what is returned to. tierra expands and contracts. It burrows under fingernails, lingers in the air, settles in memories. It is both earth and land, but it is also ground to stand on, dirt to be worked, homeland carried across distances, and sediment accumulated through time. It is material, archive, and an ancestor. Each meaning layered over and under the other.
Part of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial series, tierra marks a reconsideration of the biennial’s conceptual and material parameters. This iteration expands its focus beyond ceramic and clay as a singular medium to encompass broader practices grounded in land and earth. Across the practices presented, earth-based materials appear not only as matter but as carriers of relation that are marked by touch, shaped by labor, and mended through care. These materials are approached as holders of cultural memory and as sites where knowledge is formed through making, tending, and embodied practice. Rather than centering medium alone, the exhibition attends to the ways artists work with and through earth, not only as a material, but as a relation.
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth (May 31 - October 25)
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth is a courtyard installation led by Liz Gálvez (Office e.g.) that stages mass and fiber as shared infrastructures for collective comfort in the Los Angeles summer. Building on the practice’s ongoing investigation into heat resilience and material experimentation by staging thermal infrastructures as architectural and civic propositions, the project adapts passive cooling strategies from desert contexts into the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard.
Contemporary design culture continues to privilege mechanical conditioning as the default mode of environmental control, often at great ecological cost. Earthen Comforts reframes this paradigm by re-centering thermal design as an architectural and civic act, intervening in urgent debates around climate adaptation, material practice, and collective life.
Earthen Comforts is the final site-specific installation designed for the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard, a partnership between Materials & Applications and Craft Contemporary. Each summer since 2021, M&A transforms Craft Contemporary’s courtyard into a venue grounded by a public work of experimental architecture. A series of summer events brings architects, artists, and storytellers together into dialogue, with renewed focus on urban environments and community engagement.
Maker-In-Residence Featuring Jackie Amézquita (May 31 - October 25)
Jackie Amézquita (b. 1985, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala) lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages the ecological, ancestral, and cosmological dimensions of space, place, and temporality. For Amézquita, a site is a living constellation of human, elemental, and living systems—an evolving terrain where memory, matter, and energy circulate across deep time.
Her work choreographs biomaterials as cosmological agents that carry ancestral knowledge across genealogies, informed by oral traditions rooted in Latin American epistemologies. Earth, charcoal, rainwater, masa, and limestone act as vessels of memory and transformation, mediating exchanges between volcanic depth, terrestrial surface, and atmospheric movement. Activated through mixing, compression, burning, washing, and dispersal, these materials function as ritual technologies that awaken and set matter into relation.
As a Maker-in-Residence at Craft Contemporary, Amézquita invites visitors to act as curators – recreating the intimacy of studio visits and offering a first-hand experience of her artistic process. Using soil gathered from around the United States, she mixes the dirt with masa, cacao, spring water, and seals them with copal to form pebble-like sculptures coming from the palm of her hand. A new alchemy that combines natural materials, ancestral knowledge, and the physical imprint of humanity, Amézquita’s residency asks the audience to contribute to her project while displaying her method and materials. Her freezer and oven are key elements that help her freeze the soil until it’s ready to be used [stopping time] and then the oven bakes the soil to create the pebbles [activate it again through heat]. This process is inspired by the natural climate patterns and seasonal changes of Mother Earth that make life possible.
Upcoming Dates
All Day
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026
- Wed, Aug 12, 2026
- Thu, Aug 13, 2026
- Fri, Aug 14, 2026
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- Fri, Sep 11, 2026
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Hours
Monday – Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm