Community By: Miguel Weinstein Being a part of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s (MAH) Creative Community Committee has been an awesome experience! I’m happy to have met all of the helpful community members at MAH and can’t wait until the exhibit opens up later this summer. I think it is important that…
Foster Youth Museum Returns to Warehouse 416 in January 2017 After a great show at local gallery Warehouse 416 last year, Foster Youth Museum will return to the popular art spot with Tribute: Foster Youth Tattoo Stories in the new year. Come check out the beautiful black and white photographs featuring former foster youth and…
Tribute: Foster Youth Tattoo Stories at Cleophus Quealy Beer Co. We are excited to announce that Tribute: Foster Youth Tattoo Stories will be on display August 18 – September 1, 2016 at Cleophus Quealy Beer Company in San Leandro. Come see beautiful photographs of foster youth and their tattoos in a cool, low-key space while enjoying…
Commitment By Miguel, CYC member, Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project Trainer, FYM docent I’ve barely spent 72 hours in Arkansas, but the amount of love and hospitality that I have experienced by the individuals here has far surpassed that of any person in my previous travels around the United States. This is my first time working with…
Have Museum, Will Travel: A Foster’s First Time Out of Cali By Ricardo Ramirez, California Youth Connection member, Foster Youth Museum docent, Playmaker Rookie of the Year 2016 My name is Ricardo and I am a docent for the Foster Youth Museum and our exhibit in Arkansas. This is my first trip ever outside of California and my…
No More Sleepwalking: Waking Up By Bethanea Goudea, YTP Trainer (cohort 2016), Foster Youth Museum Docent Until recently, hypersomniac was a great way to describe my world. The hopes I had for my future involving happiness, stability, love and acceptance were so dreamlike and intangible–until now. They seemed so far from me, and while my life seemed to be wasting away…