International Foster Care Art Exhibit-Tahoma Center Gallery

International Foster Care Art Exhibit September 19^th & October 17^th   5-7pm   Everyone deserves to feel a true sense of belonging in the place they call home.  That’s why Catholic Community Services is celebrating Welcoming Week, a global campaign to showcase the movement of communities striving to be more welcoming places for all, including immigrants.  Now in its 12th year, Welcoming Week 2024 is a call for individuals and groups to come together and celebrate their strengths and differences. This year’s theme, We’re All In, invites communities to showcase how they’re building places that value all perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and cultures.   During Welcoming Week, Catholic Community Services will display art that highlights the diverse perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and cultures that are unique and valuable about each individual and enrich our community as we come together.  The International Foster Care Art Exhibit will showcase a compilation of silhouettes that were designed through a self-reflection activity by youth, families, and staff which combine to make a community…one large picture.  “While we are all individuals, who look different, believe in different things, and have different values, we can also come together to celebrate and honor those differences.  We can be part of a larger image, to create a community full of understanding, love, and respect.”  Other interactive art activities on display will include a global mapping project to visualize our journeys and how we come together, as well as taking the inspiration of Tibetan prayer flags to share messages of peace, goodwill, and compassion to promote places where everyone can belong, contribute and thrive.   The International Foster Care Art Exhibit will be on display at the CCS Tahoma Family Center in Tacoma for the months of September and October.  ArtWalk Receptions will be held the Third Thursday of the month on September 19^th and October 17^th from 5-7pm.  Visitors are invited to be part of this celebration of community as well as reflect on how we’re at our best when We’re All In on building more welcoming places, together.   The International Foster Care Program at Catholic Community Services is celebrating 45 years of providing specialized foster care that bridges child welfare and resettlement services in order to support the unique needs of unaccompanied youth from all over the world who have experienced trauma and forced migration.   For more information Connect With Us on Facebook and Instagram @CCSFosterCare . Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday 9am-4:30pm 1323 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma, WA 98405