Spring 2026 Events & Programs Schedule
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| Feb. 10 | Spring 2026 Exhibitions OPEN! The Museum opens February 10th, 2026 with new exhibitions. Come visit us! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Feb. 12 | ART WORKSHOP – 3D Mixed-Media Collage with Fiber Arts Club Make your own 3D collages using a variety of materials. The Fiber Arts Club will facilitate this workshop and help participants create their own 3D collage boxes inspired by the kitschy works of artist Simone Gad and the colorful cultural imagery of artist Jillian Thompson. This is a free, drop-in workshop with all supplies provided. All skill levels are welcome. It is open to students, faculty & staff, and the public. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Feb. 12 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Feb. 14 | Second Saturday Community Day Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels on select second Saturdays of the month over the course of the semester from 10am-2pm. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Feb. 19 | Spring 2026 Opening Reception We’re thrilled to invite you to our Spring 2026 exhibitions opening reception! Enjoy music, entertainment, refreshments, art activities, and good vibes. Join us for a chance to be among the first to see our newest exhibitions. Free and open to the public, RSVP TBD. |
| Feb. 25 | ARTIST TALK – Artist Talk with June Edmonds: Silence Join us for a special afternoon with artist June Edmonds where she will speak about her featured artwork, Silence. This is a free, drop-in program. It is open to students, faculty & staff, and the public. Artist June Edmonds recounts that she embarked on her “candy-confection colored” painting Silence (2020) “days after the George Floyd murder by police and the string of protests the occurred afterwards.” With Silence, Edmonds has stripped the Confederate flag of its traditional colors, replacing them with muted pastel hues. Addressing the fraught history of race relations in the United States, Edmonds wields the flag as a vector through which dialogue can occur around ignorance, presumed innocence, and truth. With its traditional symbolism silenced, the flag is rendered a space for new and just histories to emerge. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Feb. 26 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 5 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 12 | Open Mic with Comparative World Literature Club: HOMAGE CSULB Comparative World Literature Club presents its third semesterly Open Mic at the Museum! This semester’s theme is HOMAGE. Express your admiration for a writer that inspires you by reading their work, read about something you love, read something inspired by the style of your favorite writer or artist, or tell an old story in your own style. Ekphrastic poetry and pastiche are welcome! This is a free, drop-in program. It is open to students, faculty & staff, and the public. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 14 | Second Saturday Community Day Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels on select second Saturdays of the month over the course of the semester from 10am-2pm. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 19 | ART WORKSHOP – Printmaking with BA Studio Art Club Make your own linocut prints with BA Studio Art Club! The club will help show participants how to carve their linoleum blocks, roll on ink, and press their own original prints. This is a free, drop-in workshop with all supplies provided. All skill levels are welcome. It is open to students, faculty & staff, and the public. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 19 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 25 | ARTIST TALK – Artist Talk with Jillian Thompson: Jillian Thompson, local artist and CSULB alumnus, will give a special talk about her artwork in Limitless. This is a free, drop-in program. It is open to students, faculty & staff, and the public. Jillian Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist examining visual representations of Black womanhood. Thompson is interested in how personal memory and day-to-day experience intertwine to shape cultural identity. Referencing found imagery culled from social media and magazines, Thompson explores the creation of contemporary Black womanhood that plays out in prevailing expressions of language, style, and material culture. Thompson’s artworks—spanning printmaking, collage, assemblage, and metalwork—reveal the formation of identity to be a social practice that gives rise to continuous exploration, study, and exchange. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Mar. 26 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Apr. 9 | Death Café with Ailene deVries *THIS EVENT IS RSVP ONLY. SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RSVP.* Originating in Hackney, East London in 2011, Death Café provides a welcoming space for people to engage in open conversations about grief and death while enjoying free refreshments. This program is facilitated by CSULB School of Art faculty member Ailene deVries who fosters community and understanding through a subject many find taboo but is a part of everyone’s life. This is a free, RSVP-only event. Space is limited! RSVP below! |
| Apr. 9 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. This week, we have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Apr. 11 | Second Saturday Community Day Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels on select second Saturdays of the month over the course of the semester from 10am-2pm. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Apr. 16 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Apr. 22 | ART WORKSHOP – Earth Day Zines and Buttons with SIPS HAPPY EARTH DAY! Come hang with Student Illustration Production Squad (SIPS) while making zines and buttons that celebrate our planet Earth. SIPS will be around to facilitate and inspire. This is a free, drop-in workshop with all supplies provided. All skill levels are welcome. It is open to students, faculty & staff, and the public. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Apr. 23 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Apr. 30 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| May 7 | Community Night at the Museum Join us at the Museum after hours every Thursday. We offer a free unguided art activity from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and we also have LOUD HOUR from 4:00pm to 5:00pm! Tambourines, kazoos, and earplugs are provided to help you get loud in the galleries. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| May 7 | Spring 2026 Exhibitions CLOSE! Spring 2026 exhibitions at the Museum will close May 10th, 2026. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Date: | Past Activity Schedule: |
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| Sep. 11 | Community Night Enjoy the Museum after hours and make some art in our Education Lab! Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free self-guided art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Sep. 13 | Second Saturday Community Day Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels on select second Saturdays of the month over the course of the semester from 10am-2pm. Solastalgia Exhibition Tour - Docents will be available for conversation-based tours of the exhibition from 10:00-10:50 and 12:00-12:50. Art Park Tours - Docents will lead tours of the Art Park, adjusting to group needs, with routes adapted for accessibility considerations during ongoing campus construction. From 11:00-11:50 and 1:00-1:50. Ed Lab Activities - Docents will facilitate art projects from 10:00-2:00pm
Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Sep. 17 | Thrift Club Market and Button-Making with Sustain U Join Thrift Club for an outdoor market from 12-4pm while Sustain U leads a button-making activity from 2-4pm! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Sep. 17 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm – 4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Sep. 18 | Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception Join Kleefeld Contemporary in celebration of the museum's fall exhibitions: Solastalgia, Christine Nguyen: Emergence of the Kelp Deer, Jennifer Celio: Species in Danger, and more. Be among the first to see new exhibitions, meet artists, and enjoy music by DJ Rex. Refreshments and drinks provided. This event is FREE and open to all. RSVP is highly suggested. |
| Sep. 24 | Dr. Brett Mizelle Talk: Human Disconnection from Animals Dr. Brett Mizelle (American Studies, CSULB) will discuss human-animal disconnection and how it affects us, our habitats, and other animals. Dr. Brett Mizelle’s publications include the book Pig (Reaktion Books, 2011) and numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews in the fields of nineteenth-century American history and the history of human-animal relationships. His most recent publications are the field-defining Handbook of Historical Animal Studies edited with Mieke Roscher and André Krebber (De Gruyter, 2021) and "Mass Killing of Pigs and the Challenge of Multispecies Justice: Epidemics and the Entangled Lives of Humans and Animals from the 1970s to the Present," in Animals and Epidemics: Interspecies Entanglements in Historical Perspective (Bohlau, 2023). Work in progress includes the chapter "The Emergence of the American Animal Empire: Animal Imperialism and Extinction in Long Nineteenth-Century America" for the edited collection The History of U.S. Empire. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Sep. 24 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Sep. 25 | Community Night Enjoy the Museum after hours and make some art in our Education Lab! Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free self-guided art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 1 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 2 | Community Night - Sustainable Art - Origami Butterflies Enjoy the Museum after hours and create art inspired by Sustainability Month in our Education Lab! Engage in self-guided hands-on art activities that explore the intersection of social, racial and environmental justice. Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 7 | Artist Talk with Carolyn Castaño: Honoring Disappearing Andean Glaciers through Art Come see Carolyn Castaño speak about her artwork depicting endangered and extinct Andean tropical glaciers. Free-looking: 12:30pm-12:45pm Talk: 12:45pm-1:45pm Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 8 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 9 | Community Night - Sustainable Art - Paper Flowers Enjoy the Museum after hours and create art inspired by Sustainability Month in our Education Lab! Engage in self-guided hands-on art activities that explore the intersection of social, racial and environmental justice. Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct.11 | Second Saturday Community Day Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels on select second Saturdays of the month over the course of the semester from 10am-2pm. Solastalgia Exhibition Tour - Docents will be available for conversation-based tours of the exhibition from 10:00-10:50 and 12:00-12:50. Art Park Tours - Docents will lead tours of the Art Park, adjusting to group needs, with routes adapted for accessibility considerations during ongoing campus construction. From 11:00-11:50 and 1:00-1:50. Ed Lab Activities - Docents will facilitate art projects from 10:00-2:00.
Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 15 | Art Workshop: Flores de Papel with Chicanx Latinx Studies Student Association Join the Chicanx Latinx Studies Student Association to learn to make paper flowers in the tradition of Mexican artisans! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 15 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 16 | Community Night - Sustainable Art - Native Plant and Animal Coloring Pages Enjoy the Museum after hours and create art inspired by Sustainability Month in our Education Lab! Engage in self-guided hands-on art activities that explore the intersection of social, racial and environmental justice. Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 22 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 23 | Community Night - Sustainable Art - Origami Frogs Enjoy the Museum after hours and create art inspired by Sustainability Month in our Education Lab! Engage in self-guided hands-on art activities that explore the intersection of social, racial and environmental justice. Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 29 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 30 | Halloween Crafts & Treats at the Museum Stop by the Museum for an evening of spooky face painting, fun lawn games, ghostly crafts, and of course our galleries! Costumes are encouraged, and candy is guaranteed (while supplies last)! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Oct. 30 | Open Mic with Comparative Literature Club Join Comparative Literature Club for an open mic at the Museum! Read something or come just to listen. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 5 | Member Event: Prints & Drawings Members are invited to join us for an exclusive viewing of work from our prints and drawings collection hosted by our Registrar and Interim Co-Director, Alyssa Torres! Space is limited! RSVP below to secure your spot. Free and open to the public. Membership is free! RSVP is closed! |
| Nov. 5 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 6 | Eco-Grief, Habitat Loss, and Moving Forward through the Arts, Sciences, and Activism: An Interdisciplinary Panel The panel will discuss the impact of habitat loss, eco-grief, and ways to bring about a hopeful future. All prompts will be provided by students in select courses and student organizations. This program begins with free-looking in the Museum and moves to Horn Center Lecture Hall 100 for the discussion. Panelists:
Free and open to the public, RSVP TBD. |
| Nov. 8 | Second Saturday Community Day Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels on select second Saturdays of the month over the course of the semester from 10am-2pm. Solastalgia Exhibition Tour - Docents will be available for conversation-based tours of the exhibition from 10:00-10:50 and 12:00-12:50. Art Park Tours - Docents will lead tours of art park, adjusting to group needs, with routes adapted for accessibility considerations during ongoing campus construction. From 11:00-11:50 and 1:00-1:50. Ed Lab Activities - Docents will facilitate art projects from 10:00-2:00.
Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 12 | Art Workshop: Native Plant Zines with Re:Wild Join Re:Wild to make your own zine about native plants! Free native seed pouches will be available to participants. There will be free native seed packets for participants while supplies last! Limit one per person. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 12 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 13 | Community Night Enjoy the Museum after hours and make some art in our Education Lab! Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free self-guided art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 18 | Member Sign-up Day Looking for an easy way to support the Museum? Visit us for Member Sign-up Day at the Museum! We're giving away free plushies, tasty snacks, and freebie bundles to the first 50 people that sign up to join our FREE membership program!! 🤩 Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Membership is free! Learn more here. |
| Nov. 19 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Nov. 20 | Community Night Enjoy the Museum after hours and make some art in our Education Lab! Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free self-guided art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Dec. 3 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Dec. 4 | Community Night Enjoy the Museum after hours and make some art in our Education Lab! Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free self-guided art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Dec. 10 | Loud Hour Get LOUD at the Museum during Loud Hour! Every Wednesday from 3pm–4pm, you are invited to make noise throughout our exhibition spaces to share lively discussions, sing as loudly as you want, play instruments, or rehearse lines! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
| Dec. 11 | Community Night Enjoy the Museum after hours and make some art in our Education Lab! Kleefeld Contemporary is open until 7pm every Thursday with free self-guided art supplies and activities in the museum’s Education Lab. Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. |
Explore our archive of virtual programming and Art Encounter videos on YouTube. Art Encounter videos were produced with the generous support of the RuMBa Foundation.
The 2020–2021 inaugural program, PLATFORM, was a coalition collaborative project of CSU art museums and galleries called ConSortiUm featuring curators Erin Christovale and Valerie Cassel; artists Beatriz Cortez, Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist, Eyal Weizman, Shuan Leonardo, Howardena Pindell; and People's Kitchen Collective.
ConSortiUm’s participating CSU art museums and galleries include:
Bakersfield, Todd Madigan Gallery; Chico, Janet Turner Print Museum; East Bay, University Art Gallery; Fresno, Center for Creativity and the Arts; Fullerton, Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery and Grand Central Art Center; Humboldt, Reese Bullen Gallery and Goudi'ni Native American Arts Gallery; Long Beach, School of Art and Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum; Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex; Northridge, Art Galleries; Pomona, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery and Don B. Huntley Gallery; Sacramento, University Galleries; San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art; San Diego, University Art Galleries; San Francisco, Fine Arts Gallery; San Jose, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery; San Luis Obispo, University Art Gallery; Sonoma, University Art Gallery; and Stanislaus, University Art Gallery and Stan State Art Space.
