About University Galleries
Lost Childhoods
Foster Youth Museum
Special Preview: June 5 – 20, 2025
Lost Childhoods tells the story of loss and powerlessness in the foster care system – and the human capacity for resilience and connection. The exhibit includes art, artifacts and photographic portraits, and is organized by themes that characterize experiences in foster care and beyond: loss, powerlessness, developmental disruption, institutionalization—and connection and achievement.
Open Tuesday – Friday, Noon-4PM and by appointment.
Lost Childhoods is presented by the Foster Youth Education Fund and the University Galleries. The exhibit will be on view during the fall semester: September 4-December 6, 2025.
Gioia Fonda: One Thing After Another
September 4 – December 6, 2025
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, September 4, 5-8PM
The University Galleries is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sacramento-based artist Gioia Fonda in the Library Gallery this fall. Recognized as a multidisciplinary artist with bodies of work spanning painting, social practice, sculpture, drawing, and public art, Fonda reimagines the world around us through prisms of color and pattern. Showcasing a new body of the work, the exhibition will feature paintings exploring stages of insomnia, and an interactive painting installation.
Fonda is a studio resident at Verge Center for the Arts and a dedicated member of the Sacramento art community. A full-time professor since 2008, Fonda is a tenured professor of art at Sacramento City College.
Visiting
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About the Galleries
The University Galleries includes the University Library Gallery, the Robert Else Gallery, and the RW & Joyce Witt Gallery.
The University Galleries actively employs students in the galleries with funding provided by Associated Students (ASI), Instructionally Related Activities (IRA), and Federal Work-Study.
Gallery Hours
The University Galleries are open during the academic year and closed during campus holidays and the summer months.
University Library Gallery
Tuesday - Friday, 10AM - 4PM
Saturday, Noon - 4PM
Robert Else Gallery
Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 4PM
R.W & Joyce Witt Gallery
Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 4PM
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Phone: (916) 278-4189
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