A locally cherished East Bay industrial arts school abruptly announced its indefinite closure last weekend, upending classes and events for thousands of students.
Staff and faculty at the Crucible, an arts school and nonprofit organization in West Oakland, were notified about its closure in a Saturday night email, Samantha Espinoza, a youth programs manager with the school, told SFGATE. She described the news as a surprise.
“We had no idea that this sudden closure would be coming at all,” Espinoza said. “There was nothing to even kind of implicate it. So we had to we had been running events and classes like normal.”…