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Join us next week for Balikbayan: Weaving Stories Across the Diaspora. This TWO-DAY, student-led program featuring a col...
10/16/2026

Join us next week for Balikbayan: Weaving Stories Across the Diaspora. This TWO-DAY, student-led program featuring a collaborative discussion with artist Carol Anne McChrystal (Carol Anne McChrystal ) considers personal experiences with migration, what balikbayan (to return to the country) means, and how these experiences are not isolated. 
 
This program is inspired by our Fall exhibition, Carol Anne McChrystal: Export Quality. All programs are free and open to students, staff, faculty, and the public. 
🗓️ When: October 20 AND October 21, 2026, 2pm – 4pm
📍 Where: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

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View artwork by Peter Carr at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10.  ✏️ Harry Lawson “Peter” Carr (1925-1981) produce...
10/06/2026

View artwork by Peter Carr at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10. 
 
✏️ Harry Lawson “Peter” Carr (1925-1981) produced a prolific body of work that advocated for people-powered movements fighting against war, U.S. imperialism, corporate greed, and environmental plunder. A dedicated peace activist, Carr’s frenetic poetry, art books, political posters, and paintings emphatically advanced his personal sense of urgency to collectively organize for survival in the face of capitalist and militarist destruction. Working diligently until his sudden death in 1981, Carr developed a visual lexicon of people’s struggle that is humanistic, highly expressive, and deeply poetic. “Peter Carr: This Is How We Will All Be Saved” explores Carr’s deft use of text and image to speak truth to power and to move people from complacency to action.
 
Visit the University Library’s Special Collections and University Archives exhibition “Peter Carr: The Right to Protest” which explores the history of campus protest and peace activism at CSULB.

CSULB University Library CSULB Dept of Comparative World Literature and Classics Genre @ The Beach Comparative Literature Club
 
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🖼️ Peter Carr, “Corporate Board Room/Bechtel Board Meeting”, 1970s. Acrylic on canvas. 38 x 48 inches. Collection of Andrew Tonkovich. © Peter Carr. Photography by Tatiana Mata, 2026.
 

Looking for something to do this weekend? Join us for our Second Saturday Community Day on October 10 from 10am to 2pm! ...
10/05/2026

Looking for something to do this weekend? Join us for our Second Saturday Community Day on October 10 from 10am to 2pm!
 
Join our Docents for a day of museum tours and art making activities for all ages and skill levels! We will have exhibition tours, Art Park tours, and Ed Lab craft activities that are all free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
 
CSULB students, staff, faculty, and the public are ALWAYS welcome here! We are FREE and open to ALL! 💛🦈
 
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🌊 View artwork by Carol Anne McChrystal (Carol Anne McChrystal) at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10.  💚 “Carol An...
10/02/2026

🌊 View artwork by Carol Anne McChrystal (Carol Anne McChrystal) at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10. 
 
💚 “Carol Anne McChrystal: Export Quality” invites reflection on the entanglement of land and livelihood, shelter and home, and cultural continuity and connection. Inspired by weavers and handicraft workers in the Philippines, and drawing on her own diasporic background, McChrystal presents a selection of handwoven objects that visualize the material conditions of Filipinos in the homeland and overseas.
 
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🖼️ Carol Anne McChrystal, “alterlife entangled recombinant 05”, 2023. Approx. 24 x 24 x 12 inches. Handwoven bamboo, discarded plastics, Mountain Dew Bottle, Royal Orange Bottle, Pangasinan salt, silicone, beach charcoal, shells, paving stone, resin souvenir keychain, mylar sachet, bottle cap, ping pong ball. Courtesy of the artist. © Carol Anne McChrystal. Photography by Tatiana Mata, 2026
 

🌹 View artwork by Jacqueline Valenzuela (Jacqueline Valenzuela ) at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10, 2026.  ❤️‍🔥...
09/29/2026

🌹 View artwork by Jacqueline Valenzuela (Jacqueline Valenzuela ) at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10, 2026. 
 
❤️‍🔥 “Jacqueline Valenzuela: In Practice of Return” explores memory, ritual, and place through a selection of Valenzuela’s work across different media. The exhibition includes paintings, altars, and mixed media presented together as an assemblage that showcases their material breadth and interwoven devotional themes. For Valenzuela, artistic exploration is itself a sacred ritual where the spiritual realm merges with the everyday. Valenzuela draws deep inspiration from her life immersed in Chicano lowrider culture, incorporating personal stories and those of people from her community into her practice. Each work becomes a meditation on what it means to hold space for community—how to continually return to a place, honor and protect it, and keep its memory alive. Valenzuela received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from CSULB in 2019. 
 
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🖼️ Jacqueline Valenzuela, (Detail) “Send the Addy”, 2020. Polaroids, Personal Items, and White Roses on Found Fence. 27 x 46 inches. Courtesy of the artist. © Jacqueline Valenzuela. Photography by Tatiana Mata, 2026.
 

‼️ View artwork by Carol Anne McChrystal (Carol Anne McChrystal ) at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10.  💚 “Carol ...
09/28/2026

‼️ View artwork by Carol Anne McChrystal (Carol Anne McChrystal ) at Kleefeld Contemporary until December 10. 
 
💚 “Carol Anne McChrystal: Export Quality” invites reflection on the entanglement of land and livelihood, shelter and home, and cultural continuity and connection. Inspired by weavers and handicraft workers in the Philippines, and drawing on her own diasporic background, McChrystal presents a selection of handwoven objects that visualize the material conditions of Filipinos in the homeland and overseas.
 
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🖼️ Carol Anne McChrystal, “Pasalubong #20 (Nexperia Strike)”, 2026. Approx. 34 x 68 inches. Handwoven Tarpaulin, Grommets, Palm Leaves, Plastic Bag Cordage. Courtesy of the artist. © Carol Anne McChrystal. Photography by Tatiana Mata, 2026
 

Join us next week on October 1 for Peter Carr day at the Museum! 📢 Join the Comparative World Literature Department and ...
09/24/2026

Join us next week on October 1 for Peter Carr day at the Museum! 📢 Join the Comparative World Literature Department and Genre at the Museum for a very special rough-cut screening of a documentary about late activist, artist, and CSULB Comp Lit co-founder Peter Carr from 11:15am to 12:15pm.
 
Then, join us for an engaging talk with Dr. Brett Mizelle (CSULB Director of American Studies) about the works of Peter Carr from 3:30pm to 4:45pm.
 
These programs are inspired by our Fall exhibition, “Peter Carr: This Is How We Will All Be Saved”, which is organized in conjunction with the Special Collections and University Archives exhibition “Peter Carr: The Right to Protest”, both of which explores the history of campus protest and peace activism at Cal State Long Beach. All programs are free and open to students, staff, faculty, and the public. Check out both exhibitions until December 10, 2026!
 
🗓️ When: Thursday October 1, 2026
📍 Where: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

Genre @ The Beach CSULB Dept of Comparative World Literature and Classics CSULB University Library Comparative Literature Club American Studies @ the Beach
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 🖼️ Installation of Peter Carr: This Is How We Will All Be Saved at Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, 2026. Works by: Peter Carr. Photography by Ceirra Lark, 2026.

Join us TONIGHT for a FREE celebration at the Museum! 😏📸 Stop by to see our Fall 2026 exhibitions, meet the artists, enj...
09/17/2026

Join us TONIGHT for a FREE celebration at the Museum! 😏📸 Stop by to see our Fall 2026 exhibitions, meet the artists, enjoy music, and grab free food and drinks.
 
We’re proudly serving treats by SAN & WOLVES BAKESHOP 🇵🇭🌱💖
 
This event is FREE and open to the public.
 
🗓️ When: September 17, 2026, 6pm – 8pm
📍 Where: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum
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LAST CALL TO RSVP! 📢 Join us TOMORROW 9/17 for a FREE party at the Museum! We’re celebrating our Fall 2026 exhibitions s...
09/16/2026

LAST CALL TO RSVP! 📢 Join us TOMORROW 9/17 for a FREE party at the Museum! We’re celebrating our Fall 2026 exhibitions so stop by to check out new art, meet the artists, enjoy music, and grab free food and drinks.
 
We’re proudly serving treats by SAN & WOLVES BAKESHOP 🇵🇭🌱💖
 
This event is FREE and open to the public. Link in bio to RSVP! Or use the link below to let us know you’re coming!
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🗓️ When: September 17, 2026, 6pm – 8pm
📍 Where: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum
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Next week we’ll be printmaking with the Filipino Artists Kollective! Filipino Artists Kollective LB Join us at the Museu...
09/16/2026

Next week we’ll be printmaking with the Filipino Artists Kollective! Filipino Artists Kollective LB Join us at the Museum for a printmaking workshop centered on uplifting community issues and taking collective action. This is a drop-in program, so you can join at any time during the activity. All skill levels are welcome, and all supplies are provided.
 
This program is inspired by our Fall exhibition, Carol Anne McChrystal: Export Quality. All programs are free and open to students, staff, faculty, and the public. 
 
🗓️ When: September 24 at 1pm – 4pm
📍 Where: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum
 
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