"[2][3] Also in 2007, Craft Alliance's Board of Directors elected to open a satellite facility in Grand Center, the arts and entertainment district of St. Louis city.

Now part of the Delmar Maker District in conjunction with Third Degree Glass Factory and MADE, Craft Alliance settles into their personalized, retrofitted home.

They offer classes, camps, workshops, exhibitions, artist residencies, and house a beautiful gift shop full of handmade art.

[5][6] In response, an open letter with over 280 signatories from the community called for a boycott of Craft Alliance, describing the act as "censorship, Anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and specifically Anti-Palestinian rhetoric and erasure."

[7] Organization leaders say they were unaware of the full nature of the exhibit prior to the opening night and were not given the time and opportunity to educate the community about such a complex political topic properly.