Forbes: California Biennial 2025 At Orange County Museum Of Art Centers Adolescence

Forbes magazine wrote an article about the California Biennial at OCMA in which our teen program, the Orange County Young Curators, curated part of the exhibition.

“It's why there's such a push to make it STEAM and add ‘art’ back in into that because they realized what was missing was using your imagination as a tool; what stories and ideas and images don't exist yet, and how can we make them and share them and learn about each other,” Finn said. “It's great to learn techniques and skill sets that you can apply, and there's so many interesting things that can get made with those tools, but if you're not learning how to imagine or how to be creative or curious, what you make with those skills might not be as innovative. That's why we need artists. They imagine a world that we don't know exists yet.”

The world that exists, as built by adults, is a total wreck. Kids couldn’t do any worse.

Check out the rest of the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2025/06/24/california-biennial-2025-at-orange-county-museum-of-art-centers-adolescence/