• MSJC
• MSJC Art Gallery
• Current Exhibition

Current Exhibition

California Family Life Center’s A.R.T.E.R.Y. 2026 Mentor Art program and exhibit “Unfolding Freedoms” explores the most cherished freedoms of the artist through art, journaling and the use of symbolic imagery, collage, and printmaking in contemporary book form.

Through art and journaling we exercise the essential freedom of free thinking, though unfortunately at times, we find this freedom restricted or challenged within our lives. With art and writing we find a voice to exercise those daily freedoms in various amounts in order to navigate through life’s challenges. Art then gives us voice, creativity, and endurance of the human spirit to restore our freedoms. This restoration of freedom brings us back to humanitarian efforts and peace in our world, one “voice” that should be constant throughout the world.

In the past and present, books and authors have met numerous challenges, restricting an individual’s freedom to think, express, seek and further one’s education in written form. Within and throughout our lives, Library Science and books have always been avenues to education, conveying multitudes of voices, speaking out from all walks of life. With each page we turn, we unfold the thoughts of individuals and/or situations in life, a creative process that grows with freedom.This analogy of unfolding thoughts of freedom draws close to how one pauses and unfolds their thoughts while creating.

Again, books capture, just as art work has for centuries the unfolding of creative expression. We find book construction tightens our analogy closer to the physical aspects of books. This symbolic analogy of unfolding thoughts aligns with the “quires”, or “gatherings” as folded areas (printed pages folded) in the construction of a book. With each page we turn, we unfold free-thinking, layers of desires, emotions and intensity conveying the individual’s most cherished thoughts exercised. We hope the “Unfolding Freedoms” exhibit offers the viewer time to reflect on not only our individual freedoms, but to respect and acknowledge others’ most cherished freedoms within all generations and our community. -Michele Worth, Worth Visual Arts Program

Mentoring, art and community service are keys to CFLC’s a.r.t.e.r.y programs. CFLC and Worth Visual Arts were awarded the 2015 Americans for the Arts, National Association of Counties (NACo) andHonorable Mention from the Association of counties and Arts & Culture. The Eclipse Project emphasizes mentoring skills, focused on the transference of creative energy, and goals through art within communities. A.r.t.e.r.y. opens opportunities to future career paths to youth mentors, while bridging intergenerational teaching objectives within the community. By exhibiting the intergenerational artwork at the MSJC Art Gallery youth are expose to college as a more attainable path for their future and assimilate comfortably in a college atmosphere.

Senior and mentor introspective journals displayed are a crucial part of the a.r.t.e.r.y. program. Each individual journal entry reveals the artist’s thoughts both past and present , expressing life’s changes, challenges and personal growth throughout their lives.

This show has been made possible by the cooperative efforts of the MSJC Art Gallery, California Family Life Centers (CFLC, Planet Youth, Empower Youth, Rubidoux YOC).We thank our participating collaborators, Boardwell - Stratton Community Center, Camelot Retirement Center, and Lake Elsinore Senior Community Center.

CFLC Empower Youth a Youth Opportunity Center of Riverside Count, is a proud memeber of the Youth Opportunity Consortium. The consortium is led by the Riverside County Workforce Development Board. This Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act Title 1 financially assisted or program activity is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. California Family Life Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.