As a result of the popularity of MoPA’s first youth exhibition in 2006, Close-Up: San Diego Neighborhoods, the museum will highlight student works every year. This year’s youth exhibition, entitled New Light: Selections from MoPA's Education Programs, will be on view from September 8, 2007 to January 6, 2008. The exhibition showcases photographic works emerging from MoPA’s Education department.

Collected from the museum’s photography and film programs, outreach and after-school classes, workshops, and camps, the exhibition represents the innovative and creative programs of the Education department at the Museum of Photographic Arts. This exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to view not only what goes on behind the gallery walls, but provides insight into the lives of the next generation of photographers.

WRITING WITH LIGHT in 2008

As part of the Museum of Photographic Arts’ new vision to become an institution for visual learning and to support the museum’s education programs, MoPA is proud to present the third annual youth exhibition entitled Writing with Light, which will be on view from September 13 to December 4, 2008. The exhibition will illustrate the connections between photography and literacy, using the photographic arts as inspiration, students will interpret literary works, both fact and fiction.

Inspired by the exhibition, A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall & the Art of Photography, which will be on view at the same time, the exhibition will provide students an opportunity for expression through both a visual and narrative connection by linking the subject of photography with writing. Collected from various schools in San Diego County, a jury of museum staff and field professionals will select the final photographs to be exhibited in September 2008. The exhibition will bring together the significance of viewing photography fundamentally through writing, while offering a new way of looking at the medium.

Download the Writing with Light Exhibition Packet

For questions, submission, and more information, please contact the Education Department at 619.238.7559 x235, or email youtharts@mopa.org