Current Exhibition
The Eclipse Project – Transitional Vessels
California Family Life Center - a.r.t.e.r.y Worth Visual Arts
April 7 – April 17, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, April 8, 4 - 7 pm
MSJC Art Gallery, California Family Life Center and Worth Visual Arts presents the 2025 artery program “Transitional Vessels”, a close exploration into the realm of human transitions. Defined as “a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another “ (Merriam - Webster) we find ourselves transitioning on many levels and on a daily basis. Symbolically, we as humans are living vessels that change, adapt and transition throughout our lives, filled with challenges of gender, self-discovery, growth, environmental changes, jobs, education and more. As human vessels we truly become a repository for experiences and transitions, a source of history in one’s struggles and achievements in life.
In art, we draw a closer analogy to the life of clay. Much like humans and nature, clay medium transitions from it’s wet state to sculpted form, then dried, fired, glazed and re-fired resulting in a physical journey of transformation and change. With this analogy in mind, the symbolic vessels on exhibit, reflect CFLC youth mentors and their intergenerational mentees transitions in life. Within the vessels, personal journals further reveal strengths, challenges and paths to achieve the individuals’ change. We invite you as the viewer to travel into the transitional vessels, reflect on their contents, while recognizing and appreciating the willingness of other’s to share their lives, both in art form and writing.
- Michele Worth, instructor, Worth Visual Arts Programs
Mentoring, art and community service are key elements to CFLCʼs 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) and Honorable Mention from the Association of Counties Arts & Culture. The Eclipse Project exhibit emphasizes mentoring skills, focused on the transference of creative energy, and goals through art within their communities. A.r.t.e.r.y. opens opportunities to future career paths to youth mentors, while bridging all program objectives to positive endeavors within their community. By exhibiting their artwork at the MSJC Art Gallery, youth are exposed to college as a more attainable path for their future while assimilating comfortably in a college atmosphere.
Senior and mentor introspective journals will be displayed and are a crucial part of the a.r.t.e.r.y. program. The journal entries help reveal the artists thoughts on their past and present as their lives change and grow beyond their homes and comfort zones.
The show has been made possible by the cooperative efforts of the MSJC Art Gallery, Worth Visual Arts Programs, Michele Worth, California Family Life Centers (CFLC); Planet Youth, Empower Youth, Rubidoux YOC. Participating collaborators are Boardwell - Stratton Community Center after school program, Elsinore Senior Community Center and Camelot Retirement Center.
CFLC, Empower Youth a Youth Opportunity Center of Riverside County, is a proud member 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.