Learn basic woodworking skills and power tools while building a coaster to take home. Sign up HERE! This class is open to all, no experience or membership necessary. Attendees must only become CRASH Space members if they would like to continue to use the tools for their own projects in the future. Each class is a one-off, with projects including coasters, stools, and flower presses.
Come Learn Risography at CrashSpace! Risography Crash Course! Bright Colors! Grungy dots! Unpredictable alignments! A Risograph is somewhere between a photocopy and a screen print. Beloved by zine creators, poster makers and retro design enthusiasts, Risography provides intense colors with just enough unpredictability to make it interesting. In this class we will learn Risography basics, reasoning about spot colors and get hands on experience with a Risograph printer. We will learn both traditional and digitally aided Risograph layout techniques. With 7 eye-popping colors to choose from, everyone who takes a class will leave with 15 copies of a 3 color print. Bring a sketch, a laptop, inspiration or all 3! All duplicating supplies provided — just bring your imagination (and a sketch, if you’ve got one) All skill levels welcome — total beginners especially Up to 3 color prints per member to take home Ages 18+ Where : CrashSpace, 10526 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 When : June 20, 3 – 5pm Cost : $10 Sign up on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beginner-risograph-class-tickets-1990730266817?aff=oddtdtcreator
Transform used bike chains into kinetic jewelry and small wearable objects with movement, memory, and a little bit of steel magic. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll transform used bike chains into kinetic jewelry and small wearable objects with movement, memory, and a little bit of steel magic. Participants will learn how to clean, break down, and repurpose bike chain into pieces that can become a necklace, bracelet, keychain, gift, or small talisman. We’ll also explore heat painting steel, using flame and temperature to bring out shifting blues, golds, purples, and other iridescent tones in the metal. Kinetic jewelry offers a small source of movement, texture, and tactile stimulation, something to fidget with, focus on, or carry as a grounding object. Your finished piece might commemorate the bike you crossed the country with, hold the story of a beloved ride, or become a gift for someone who would rather skip the subway and bomb down Broadway on two wheels instead. Participants are welcome to bring their own retired bike chain, especially one with personal meaning, or use materials provided in class. No prior jewelry-making or bike repair experience needed, just curiosity, hands, and a willingness to play with metal, motion, and memory. Your instructor: Adela Wagner is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and long-distance cyclist whose work often lives at the intersection of movement, memory, and care. Their cycling life began in NYC on a rusted Craigslist bike and eventually carried them across six states on a solo ride from Pennsylvania to Georgia, through Czech mountain roads, and into mutual aid rides, street activism, and bike community. For Adela, the bicycle is both a practical tool and a vessel for story: a way to move through fear, build connection, carry grief, and find freedom in the flow state. This is a masks optional workshop More info and RSVP