Lost Childhoods
FOSTER YOUTH MUSEUM
September 4 - December 6, 2025
Foster Youth Museum’s Lost Childhoods is presented by the Foster Youth Education Fund and the University Galleries at Sacramento State. This exhibition has been conceived by current and former foster youth.
Lost Childhoods tells the story of loss and powerlessness in the foster care system – and the human capacity for resilience and connection. Organized around themes that characterize experiences of foster care, the exhibit includes art, artifacts and photographic portraits.
In California there are currently 45,000 young people in foster care. The experiences of these youth are commonly misunderstood and sometimes made deliberately invisible. Lost Childhoods offers viewers a way to understand these experiences and to witness how healing and growth come from supportive relationships, sharing in decision‐making, and from love and respect. The stories told in this exhibition are real.
As you experience the object and photographs throughout the exhibit , visitors will move through the themes of powerlessness, institutionalization, loss, and hope. Some are raw, some are sweet and heartwarming, and many will move you to action.
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, September 4, 5-8PM
About Library Gallery
Gioia Fonda: One Thing After Another
September 4 – December 6, 2025
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, Fonda's work spans painting, social practice, sculpture, drawing, and public art. This exhibition features a new series of paintings exploring states of insomnia. In a departure from her primarily abstract work, the paintings are representational in nature, foregrounding the artist and the existential moments that only happen at night.
The exhibition also includes an interactive painting installation. The artist invites viewers to play with abstract compositions comprised of magnetized canvases rendered with brighly colored shapes and patterns. Come design your own artwork!
- Exhibition Reception Thursday, September 4, 5-8PM
- Artist Talk: Thursday, October 16, 4:30PM
- Artist Talk and Exhibition Walk Through: Saturday, November 8, 1PM
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COMING SPRING 2026!
Painting La Comuniversidad:
Three Murals of the Royal Chicano Air Force
University Library Gallery
February 12 - May 2, 2026
The University Galleries at Sacramento State is proud to present Painting La Comuniversidad: Three Murals of the Royal Chicano Air Force — a landmark exhibition opening Spring 2026 at the University Library Gallery. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the murals of the Royal Chicano Air Force and highlights three important murals in Sacramento: Southside Park Mural (1977, restored 2001), Metamorphosis (1980) and Emergence of the Chicano Social Struggle in a Bi-Cultural Society (1969). Each mural marks a moment in the history of the collective and the on-going commitment to Chicano history and community.
Painting La Comuniversidad brings these stories to life through large-scale reproductions where visitors can experience details from the murals up close in conjunction with original drawings, activist posters, archival materials, and video interviews with RCAF artists.
We need your support to make this exhibition a success! Donate today. Your donation, big or small, will enable us to document and archive three murals of the Royal Chicano Air Force; works that celebrate community, culture, and collective memory.
Thank you for your generosity and we look forward to seeing you at the Library Gallery this Spring.
