Events Calendar

All November and December, we'll be making gifts for friends and loved ones!

Learn about the significance of sandpainting.

Join us in creating seasonal crafts with "Fall in a Jar"!

Celebrate Día de los Muertos with us!

Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Central Library and explore the art of linocut printing at this special event. Nova Community Arts will teach attendees how to design, carve and print a linoleum block as a broadside…

Join us every Friday afternoon for a free-play session with LEGO-style bricks.

This workshop will focus on the experimental nature of collage and the seamless blending and application of paper collage with drawing, painting, and abstract elements to create unique mixed-media work.

Join us for knitting and crochet!

Learn the history of Chinese tea and taste a variety of teas!

Transform everyday garbage into a work of art! Join us to create a playful collage with things that we collect around our homes: junk mail, shipping materials, product packaging, and more.

Explore BLOCKFACE — a hands-on stamp kit where parts of letters combine into your own typographic creations.

Join us for our holiday art and craft gift making and card making workshop!

Join us during our drop-in hours to use our button makers and zine supplies. Don’t forget to book an appointment to access our sewing, embroidery, and Cricut machines.

Quilters, embroiderers, and all other fiber artists welcome. Beginners welcome too! Feel free to bring projects to work on. Share patterns, projects, and ideas.Please note that there are no meetings in April or October.

Whether you knit, crochet, embroider, or more, join our new monthly fiber arts social club. Meet other slow stitchers from the community of all experience levels. Please bring your own supplies.

Come create your own ceramic masterpiece!

Artist and educator Taty Hernandez will guide you through an introduction to Indigenous Futurism for (re) imagining and dreaming up new worlds.

FoSLL Sewing Club: Hemming and Cropping series.

Come create collage art and listen to music together. We’ll have lots of cool stuff to cut up for your collages including magazines, comics, and cards from Central Library’s old card catalog.

Join us during drop-in hours to use our button makers and zine supplies. Sewing, embroidery, and Cricut machines available by appointment.

A weekly fiber arts meetup where participants can share projects, socialize with other fiber artists, and work on their crafts. Bring your own supplies. No registration is required, but schedules may change, so call the Washington Irving Library at…

Do you sew, knit or crochet? Join us for a fabric arts meet up. Come and work on your projects with other art crafters in the community. All skill levels are welcome.

Coloring can be a form of therapy, and we always want to promote different ways to de-stress in the library.

Patrons will use a range of mixed-media materials to create a hanging mobile consisting of wire, string, buttons, and pieces of handmade paper.