Pomona Envisions the Future

Pomona Envisioning the Future a collaborate art project of September 2003 in Pomona, California. The project began with a series of discussions and lectures about globalization and the future. Seventy artists, trained by nine facilitators, created more than 800 works of art in digital media, photographs, sculptures, and paintings.Pomona Envisions the Future, a mural in Thomas Plaza in downtown Pomona's Arts District, resulted from the 2003 art project. Painted on the side of the Union Building, the mural depicts Pomona's past, present and future.

The community-based project named Envisioning the Future (E.T.F) began with an idea by Cheryl Bookout, director of SCA Gallery of Pomona. She met with Judy Chicago in 2001 to discuss her goal to bring attention to Inland Valley arts, and revitalize downtown Pomona and its art colony. Executed by Chicago, Woodman, and Cal Poly Pomona, it was Chicago's largest project to that point, including artists from 47 communities within eight counties in California. The project was led by Bookout and Barbara Way, Dean of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

This project brings together works that are both diverse and divergent. The future as seen by these artists ranges from optimism to severe pessimism and from the micro level of the family unit to the macro level of the world at large.

It began with panel discussions and lectures about "the impact of globalization and new technologies on art and the future", which occurred over two weeks in September 2003 at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona. Speakers included British art historian Edward Lucie-Smith; Henry Hopkins, formerly of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and former director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Hammer Museum; and other North American art historians, scholars, and artists. Other participants included Judy Baca and Gilbert Luján, muralists from Los Angeles, and artists Patrick Nagatani and Isis Rodriguez. It was then officially kicked off on September 22, 2003.

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