20/10/2026
Textiles, Coffee & Chocolate
A one-day excursion East Bay
Color you can touch. Chocolate you can taste. Coffee you can smell.
Berkeley in the 1960s and ’70s was a place where people believed handmade mattered: that craft was a way of life, that heritage techniques deserved to be honored and reinvented, and that making things by hand could change how we live. That spirit never left the East Bay.
Join Yoshiko, WSNF founder, for a one-day excursion into the studios of three maker-artists who still live and work by those ideals.
Friday, October 23, 2026 · 10:45 AM-5:30 PM PDT
Meet a legend of fiber art.
Ana Lisa Hedstrom is a product of that Berkeley craft renaissance, and she reimagines traditional shibori for today, creating a conversation between East and West, old and new. Her work is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, the Oakland Museum, and the de Young. A two-time NEA grant recipient and fellow of the American Craft Council, she welcomes us into her studio for a talk that is the heart of our day.
Then, two makers who bring the same devotion to the everyday.
Karen Urbanek of Flying Noir Art & Chocolate, a Grand Master Chocolatier named one of America’s top 10 by Dessert Professional, makes micro-batch chocolates from the freshest local, natural, and sustainable ingredients. Each piece is a small painted work of art, and she opens her studio for a tasting and demonstration.
Tim Hansen of CoRo Coffee learned to roast in 2012 and co-founded Bay Area CoRoasters, a collaborative roastery that shares education, expertise, and equipment with roasters of every level. It’s the same sharing, hands-on spirit the Bay Area has always valued. He’ll show us the craft behind a perfectly roasted cup.
Textile, chocolate, coffee: three crafts, one Bay Area ethos of slow, honest, handmade work, passed from one generation of makers to the next.
Only 12 seats · WSNF members get priority
Includes demonstrations, talks, tastings, shopping, and lunch.
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