Current Exhibitions

  

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KCAM Community Engagement Project decorative title card

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery, Ongoing 

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.

Learn how to participate in the exhibition.

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.   

 

Selections from the Permanent Collection  

Archives Room, Ongoing 

A selection of artwork from Kleefeld Contemporary's permanent collection is displayed in the Archives Room on an ongoing basis. 

The Archives Room is available to reserve for research requests. To make a reservation, please fill out a request at least two weeks in advance.  

Reserve the Archives Room. 

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

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INSIGHTS 2025

Select museum galleries, May 21 – July 11, 2025 

INSIGHTS is the annual juried School of Art student exhibition at California State University, Long Beach. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit up to three works for consideration. The exhibition is juried by School of Art faculty from their respective program areas: Animation, Ceramics, Drawing & Painting, Fiber, Graphic Design, Illustration, Metals & Jewelry, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture/4D, and Wood.

INSIGHTS 2025 takes place May 7-May 13 in the Max L. Gatov, Dr. Maxine Merlino, Dennis W. Dutzi, and Marilyn Werby galleries, which comprise the main School of Art Galleries. Select works will also be displayed at the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum May 21-July 11.

INSIGHTS 2025 artists on view at the museum:

Kat Barsukova
Skylar Bush
Tommy Diaz
Melissa Fillari
Shannon Freshwater
MacKenzie Giles
Wym Greene
Michael Larios
Nicole Li
Amaya Lounibos Hartard
Alexis Miranda Gaona
Jacqueline Mix
Sarah Mueller
Magdalena Oliveros
Emily Perez
Casey Rubenfeld
Alexa Saavedra
Jaslie Ulloa
Lucia Wang