Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project
Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project is a participatory exhibition that invites the community to create artwork in response to the prompt: What do you want the future of your community to look like? Participants are given the option to display their artwork in the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
Inspired by the Museum’s 50th anniversary in 2024 and this year’s 75th anniversary of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Notes to Future Selves embraces these milestones as a powerful moment for collective reflection. The exhibition celebrates the CSULB community’s diversity of voices, perspectives, experiences, and visions for the future.
Notes to Future Selves will be updated weekly as artwork submissions are received from the community.
In conjunction with Notes to Future Selves, a section of the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery features selections from the Museum’s permanent collection that engage introspective practices, such as recording everyday events, experiences, or observations in a sketchbook or journal or expressing one’s thoughts and feelings through personal iconography. Featured artists include Hannelore Baron, Carolyn Kleefeld, Joyce Treiman, and Beth Van Hoesen.
How to participate:
Step 1: Pick up an art kit from the Museum during open hours.
Step 2: Use the materials provided in the art kit to create an artwork to contribute to the exhibition using the prompt What do you want the future of your community to look like?
Step 3: Bring your finished artwork to the Museum during open hours. New artwork will be added to the installation each week.
If you wish, you can retrieve your artwork May 21 through May 30, 2025, Wed-Fri, 11am-3pm.
Do not include any inflammatory language or hate speech.
Our Education Lab is available as a creative space during museum open hours for Spring 2025 starting February 13. Feel free to drop in and use the available materials to complete your project.
The Museum will be hosting a dedicated workshop on Thursday, April 10, 4-7pm.
Project Resources:
FAQ
Exhibition space is limited, so please limit your submission to one artwork person.
Please limit your artwork size to maximum of 8 ½” width x 11” height x 4” depth.
Yes, be creative. However, please do not include wet or organic materials such as leaves, flowers, or food.
You may email Cristal Guzman, Curator of Academic Programs and Community Learning at cristal.guzman@csulb.edu or Erin Stout, Chief Curator, at erin.stout@csulb.edu.
Bring your finished artwork to the Museum during open hours (see hours listed below).
Museum Hours February 13 through May 8, 2025
Sunday CLOSED
Monday CLOSED
Tuesday 12PM - 5PM
Wednesday 12PM - 5PM
Thursday 12PM - 8PM
Friday 12PM - 5PM
