The Crucible
📍 1260 7th St, Oakland, CAThe Crucible on 7th Street in West Oakland is a nonprofit industrial arts school and performance venue rated 4.6 stars on Yelp across 155 reviews, offering adult classes in glassblowing, ceramics, metalsmithing, jewelry, welding, blacksmithing, and woodworking in a massive converted factory space two blocks from the West Oakland BART station. Classes are taught by professional working artists in studios equipped with industrial furnaces, pottery wheels, kilns, metalworking benches, and woodshop machinery, and the school's 6-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio means every participant gets real hands-on time with the equipment. The Crucible has trained thousands of Oakland residents in industrial arts since its founding and is one of the most distinctive creative institutions in the Bay Area.
Classes at The Crucible43 available
Glass Blowing
Ceramics
Jewelry Making
Crafts