Join us for our monthly Art and Craft Night, featuring one of our artists-in-residence, Kia Lat!
Kia will be hosting a Radical Toy Lab. Together, we will radically imagine how toys and play could look like in the world we want to live in. Reflecting on how we play in our childhood and adulthood, we will create new toys the world has never seen before!
To aid the quest, ARTogether will provide drawing supplies, air dry clay, and some used materials like old magazines and cardboard.
Wednesday, Aug 12th
Between 5 – 8pm
ARTogether Center
1200 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA
Please arrive by 5:30 PM for Kia’s opening talk and demo!
ARTogether will provide all necessary materials, along with our usual art supplies, if you’d prefer to play in a different medium. Feel free to bring your own creative project that you’d like to work on while in community.
Gather In: Art and Craft Community Nights are casual, drop-in, creative hangouts that take place every 2nd Wednesday from 5 – 8 PM. Bring your friends to a future event!
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Basic art supplies provided, but feel free to bring your own!
Optional: Bring a snack to share
Featured Artist: Kia Lat
Kia Lat (he/they) is a descendent of Muslim javanese ancestors who paved their way to wear Batik, Mad Crazy ancestors who paved their way to reject psychiatric institutions and all cages, and Queer/Trans ancestors who paved their way into radical imaginings of the world. Their ancestors live in him as they migrate and migrate, across continents and, as of recent, neighborhoods in Berkeley. Experiencing multiple involuntary hospitalizations, interrogating asylum and kinship as a Mad Neurodivergent abolitionist becomes central to their investigation. He historically engages with Acrylic paint and block printing and is expanding to multidisciplinary realms.
Kia is one of 8 artists-in-residence participating in our 2026 Mentorship Hub. Learn more about the program here.