THE CRUCIBLE
1260 7th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 www.thecrucible.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Crucible inspires creative exploration and expression through welcoming, hands-on arts education and experiences for people of diverse ages and backgrounds. As an innovative hub built around the industrial arts, The Crucible is a catalyst for individual growth and vibrant community connections.

The Crucible inspires creative exploration and expression through welcoming, hands-on arts education and experiences for people of diverse ages and backgrounds.

AdultsThe Crucibles mission is to inspire creative exploration and expression through welcoming, hands-on arts education and experiences for people of diverse ages and backgrounds. As an innovative hub built around the industrial arts, The Crucible is a catalyst for individual growth and vibrant community connections. The Crucible is dedicated to inspiring creative growth in Oakland and the greater Bay Area, and our Youth Programs are a crucial part of that mission.2019 was a year of focused growth for The Crucible. Our core programs adult classes and workshops, youth industrial arts education, and community engagement all reached new levels of engagement. Over the last year, The Crucibles hands-on arts education programs, based in our West Oakland facility, provided access to high-quality arts experiences for 15,346 people of diverse ages and backgrounds. From blacksmithing to neon, glass casting, ceramics, welding, kinetics, and fire dancing, The Crucible provides arts education programs to more than 8,270 adults annually. Our instructors have extensive real world experience and a passion for what they teach. Classes are designed to bring together novices as well as experienced artists and tradespeople to a noncompetitive, open environment where people with diverse interests and backgrounds can work together and learn from one another.

YouthYouth Education Programs provide over $500,000 in services to young people to participate in the arts through hands on learning experiences including, classes, field trips, outreach events, internships, teaching assistantships and workshops. 3,139 young people were served in 2019 by these programs, 936 free of charge. Since its inception in 2010, more than 78 youth have graduated from the Fuego Program. Of the 78 who have completed the program, 45 are still engaged with The Crucible as faculty, administrative staff, or as volunteers. Others have gone on to build successful careers in construction trades, or have graduated from universities and art schools.Crucible provided youth industrial arts programming emboldens youth to start making deeper connections between science, technology, engineering, and math through tangible industrial arts lessons. During six weeks of Summer Camp, 860 youth in 128 classes fabricated jewelry, bent glass into neon light sculptures, blacksmithed steel into practical tools, and more, with an additional 110 youth learning in after-school and weekend intensives throughout the year.The Crucible offered free and discounted field trips, workshops, and in-school presentations to students from 34 schools, and paid leadership opportunities and workforce development to 15 youth as part of our Fuego Youth Leadership Program.

TeamTeam Building - The Crucible provides workshops for companies, schools, and other groups to collaborate on fabrication of industrial arts projects. These workshops offer groups fun, hands-on arts experiences and provide a refreshing change of pace from office work and support team work, collaboration, and creative problem solving.

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