Museum of Craft and Design

Museum of Craft and Design Located in the heart of Dogpatch, the Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) is the only museum in San Francisco devoted to craft and design.

MCD's vision is to make creativity accessible to everyone. The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) develops and presents engaging exhibitions and educational programs that explore and define the role of craft and design in our dynamically changing global culture, encouraging our audience to see the world differently.

The Afterimage Silent Auction is officially live!⁠⁠Inside: unforgettable finds and unexpected experiences. Luminous. Del...
05/26/2026

The Afterimage Silent Auction is officially live!⁠
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Inside: unforgettable finds and unexpected experiences. Luminous. Delicious. Rare. Beautifully made. Ingeniously crafted. Delightfully whimsical.⁠
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There's something for everyone! Whether you're looking to aura farm at Alchemy Springs Sauna Garden Spa, bring that energy home with Gary Hutton's “Chroma Table” or Lisa K. Blatt's “Untitled (Heatscape)” limited edition artwork, or find beauty in everyday with Michelle Lao's “In My Mind I Am Free” lamp, or J.B. Blunk's slip cast “Blunk Cups”. ⁠
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Browse. Bid. Outbid your friends.⁠
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Tap the link below start bidding now! Discover them in real life at Afterimage and keep bidding. The auction closes during Afterimage at 9:00 PM on May 30.⁠

🔗 https://us.givergy.com/sfmcd/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots

Something worth bidding on is coming!⁠⁠On May 26, the Afterimage Silent Auction goes live! Featuring original design obj...
05/20/2026

Something worth bidding on is coming!⁠
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On May 26, the Afterimage Silent Auction goes live! Featuring original design objects , handcrafted artworks, and exclusive experiences including:⁠
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▪️ “Glow Cube II” by Joe Ferriso⁠
▪️ "Stop Me If You Can" by Oksana Levchenya⁠
▪️ “Butterfly Clip” by Annie Duncan⁠
▪️ Exclusive Pixar Animation Studios Tour for you and up to five guests⁠
▪️ Sound Bath Experience by Callista | SB Sound Grove⁠
▪️ And much more!⁠
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Join us at Afterimage, Saturday, May 30, 2026, to bid on these items and many more during an immersive evening benefiting the Museum of Craft and Design.⁠
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🔗 Claim your spot before it disappears! Tickets on sale through the link below!⁠

https://us.givergy.com/sfmcd/?controller=tickets

05/10/2026

What do you make when the material you've built your practice around disappears?

Meet Kelly Egan (), one of the featured artists in "Video Craft," whose film "Athyrium Felix-Femina (For Anna Atkins)," 2012–2016, asks exactly that.

When Kodak filed for bankruptcy, Egan, trained in film preservation at George Eastman Museum, turned to cyanotype, a process pioneered by Anna Atkins, the first person to publish a book of photography. She coated 35mm film by hand using Atkins’ recipe, arranged native plants directly on its surface, and exposed them to sunlight.

The result is a deep blue background layered with the transparent outlines of plants, interspliced with found footage of a young girl being taunted with a spider in a jar. The whole thing is stitched together by hand through the sprocket holes, carefully enough that it can still be disassembled and run through a projector.

"Video Craft" is now on view at the Museum of Craft and Design. Come see it in person and experience the intersection between moving image technologies and traditional crafts.

Tickets at the link in bio!

Afterimage Tickets Now On Sale!⁠⁠Support the Museum of Craft and Design and get ready for an immersive one-evening-only ...
05/07/2026

Afterimage Tickets Now On Sale!⁠
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Support the Museum of Craft and Design and get ready for an immersive one-evening-only extension of “Video Craft.” Afterimage will unfold across the museum and beyond, bringing together artists, designers, and cultural leaders for an evening of cocktails, auction, dinner, and moving image.⁠
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Join us at MCD, 2569 3rd Street⁠
Saturday, May 30, 2026, 6 – 10 PM.⁠
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Event Details:⁠
● 6 – 7 PM Cocktails and Silent Auction⁠
● 7 – 10 PM Immersive Dinner⁠
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At its core, Afterimage is about impact: how art lives on beyond the moment it’s seen, continuing to shape how we see, think, and imagine.⁠
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Claim Your Place Before it Disappears!⁠
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Learn more and purchase your tickets for Afterimage through the link below

🔗 https://us.givergy.com/sfmcd/?controller=home

05/01/2026

Join us for Free First Thursday on May 7 from 12–5 PM!⁠
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Come to experience our current exhibition “Video Craft”, featuring 19 artists at different stages of their careers, exploring the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass.⁠
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Admission to the Museum of Craft and Design is always free on the first Thursday of every month. We believe art, craft, and design should be accessible to all. Come wander, get inspired, and make your Thursday a little more artful.⁠
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🎟️ Reserve free tickets online in advance or simply walk in. Plan your visit via the link in bio.⁠⁠
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[Image Description: Promotional graphic announcing Free First Thursdays at MCD.]

The architecture of technology, reimagined in textile form.Richard Vijgen, featured in “Video Craft,” transforms invisib...
04/29/2026

The architecture of technology, reimagined in textile form.

Richard Vijgen, featured in “Video Craft,” transforms invisible digital systems into woven form.

In his “Hyperthread” series, Vijgen translates the hidden code inside silicon into woven patterns, where threads intersect over and under. These patterns mirror the flow of electrical currents through silicon.

He scales up these microscopic networks into something we can see. What's usually invisible suddenly becomes something you can almost touch!

✨ Plan your visit to “Video Craft,” now on view at the Museum of Craft and Design. Tickets at the link in bio!

04/26/2026

Step inside a world where performance, sculpture, video, and digital art converge.

In “Grog Cave”, 2024, William Cobbing (.cobbing) builds a cave-like clay structure by hand, its surface pressed, shaped, and marked to hold the trace of touch, but it is meant to be viewed as a geological structure made by natural forces.

Set within it, a small screen plays a video that echoes the material’s soft, shifting, and unstable qualities, showing Cobbing wearing a wet clay mask and wire-cutting through layered forms that release bursts of brightly colored paint.

Come experience “Grog Cave” for yourself along with all 19 artists featured in “Video Craft.” On view through August 16 at the MCD.

Link in bio to learn more and plan your visit.

Something special is coming, and we want you to be part of it!We're making a short film, a celebration of everything MCD...
04/25/2026

Something special is coming, and we want you to be part of it!

We're making a short film, a celebration of everything MCD, and we're collecting video testimonials from our audience. Testimonials like this help us fund our exhibitions and programs and show supporters what MCD means to our community.

Whether you’re an artist, designer, student, maker, MCD Member, occasional visitor, or even a young budding creative, we want to hear from you!
Using 1–5 words, tell us: How would you describe the Museum of Craft and Design?

Film it on your phone horizontally, and please start by saying your name. Keep it short and instinctive. Be casual, expressive, and natural is perfect. Describe a feeling, a memory, a spark.

Then send it to [email protected] or send us a DM*! Please share all videos by May 10th.
Don't let your story go untold!

*Participants will be asked to complete a brief video release form granting MCD permission to use their submission.

Join the Dogpatch Arts and Business Association for a special Dogpatch Design Studio Tour, a behind-the-scenes guided ex...
04/20/2026

Join the Dogpatch Arts and Business Association for a special Dogpatch Design Studio Tour, a behind-the-scenes guided experience through one of San Francisco’s most dynamic creative neighborhoods.

Start your journey at MCD, then visit innovative design studios, working in interior and product design, architecture, typography, and branding!

[Repost] ➡️ 5 studios. One afternoon.

Step inside Dogpatch’s creative scene for a behind-the-scenes look at where ideas actually happen.

👉🏼The Dogpatch Design Studio Tour takes you into working studios—meet the designers, see the spaces, and hear what they’re creating right now.

Featuring:

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📍 Dogpatch, San Francisco
🗓 Thursday, May 7
⏰ 3:45–7:00 PM

‼️Limited spots → 🎟️Tickets in bio

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