Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project
Create an artwork to contribute to the spring 2025 exhibition, Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project.
Your artwork will be displayed publicly alongside the artwork of other community members.
Bring your finished artwork to the Museum during open hours (see hours listed below). New artwork will be added to the installation each week.
If you wish, you can retrieve your artwork after May 8, 2025.
Do not include any inflammatory language or hate speech.
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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 also be hosting a dedicated workshop on Thursday, April 10 at 4-7pm.
Artwork Instructions
Step 1) Pick up an artwork kit from the Museum.
Step 2) Create an artwork. Follow the prompts below:
What do you want the future of your community to look like?
Use the materials provided in the kit to create your response to the prompt.
Explore different words, images, colors, patterns, and textures.
Make a collage, write a poem, compose a journal entry, or create an abstract visual representation of your feelings.
Step 3) Drop off your artwork during museum hours.
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:
Sunday CLOSED
Monday CLOSED
Tuesday 12PM - 5PM
Wednesday 12PM - 5PM
Thursday 12PM - 8PM
Friday 12PM - 5PM
