Exhibitions
Homegrown Heroes
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 – MAY 30, 2025
Homegrown Heroes is an exhibition exploring how we advance civil rights in our region. Visit the exhibition to learn from the experiences of some of Inland Southern California’s many civil rights leaders.
Past Exhibitions
San Bernardino Photography Now:
I’m Grateful Thorns Have Roses
JUNE 6, 2024 – AUGUST 23, 2024
San Bernardino Photography Now: I’m Grateful Thorns Have Roses is a simultaneous double-venue exhibition at the Garcia Center of the Arts in San Bernardino and the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California in Riverside.
The exhibition is a major survey of the remarkable recent photography being produced by artists emerging from San Bernardino. The work addresses a wide array of social issues and is particularly anchored in the city’s Westside.
Working Coachella:
Images of the farmworker community of the Coachella Valley
JANUARY 11, 2024 – MAY 2024
“Working Coachella” makes visible the people who labor in the Coachella Valley’s fields, demonstrating who is responsible for producing the food we all eat.
Still I Rise: The Black IE Fight For Justice
OCTOBER 2022 – DECEMBER 2023
Still I Rise, which examined the lived experience of Black residents of the Inland Empire from the Great Migration to the present. Themes of Black self-reliance, home, work, education, policing, and intersectionalism bear witness to the adversity and discrimination faced by the Black community and the strategies they used to thrive in the face of adversity.