Educational Programs

UC Merced

Throughout the Fall of 2025, Origin Stories Project, in partnership with the University of California at Merced, launched a campus, community-centered project to celebrate the University’s 20th anniversary. Spearheaded by art professor Tonya Lopez-Craig, students, faculty and alumni throughout the University participated in the project, creating almost eighty boxes.

The exhibition, titled The Ground We Share: The UC Merced Origins Project, opened on Thursday, October 24 at the UC Merced Art Gallery and is ongoing. An all-campus reception will follow in February 2026.

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Castro Valley High School

Also in the Fall of 2025, Jennifer Jervis, EdD, our Director of Educational Programming initiated the project with an art class at Castro Valley High to elicit individual stories and artwork of Legacy, Arrival, Adversity and Revelation.

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Upcoming

Classes and Workshops participating in Spring 2026 include:

  • The Youth Art Exchange in San Francisco, CA, an organization devoted to providing access to the arts for public high school students from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds

  • Southwest High School in El Centro, on the southern border of California and Mexico

  • Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA

  • John Muir High School students and alumni in Pasadena, CA, many of whom have been affected by the Eaton Fire

Past Workshops

Events 2
Art & Storytelling Workshop
Nov 10
Art & Storytelling Workshop