Grantee Database
Timken Museum of Art
Grant Year
2026-27
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$17,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council (CAC), the Putnam Foundation (DBA Timken Museum of Art) will continue evolving Creative Choices—a trauma-informed arts program for system-engaged youth at the Youth Transition Campus (YTC)—adapting to meet participants where they are and elevate their future potential. Serving teens and young adults, the program offers weekly classes, guest artists, collaborative murals, a public exhibition, and field trips to Balboa Park. Rooted in mentorship, youth are guided by teaching artists who model creativity, resilience, and pathways forward, equipping participants with tools for success upon release. Through art making, Creative Choices nurtures voice, confidence, and healing. CAC funds will support artist stipends, materials, transportation, and exhibition costs. The program opens a space where imagination becomes possibility and young people begin to envision futures shaped by purpose, agency, and creative strength.
Organization Summary
The following describes our core programs, all provided free of charge:
Exhibitions and lecture series: 3 exhibitions annually that focus on a specific painting in our collection, positioning it in the larger context of works by a master or artistic movement. Each exhibition has a series of morning, afternoon and evening lectures, and daily docent-led tours.
School programs: school tours; teacher workshops for educators to learn how art can connect to their teaching; Outreach Español (Spanish docent-guided tours for Spanish-speaking students); Creative Choices (artist-in-residency program for at-risk students in Juvenile Hall).
Programs for adults, families and visitors with special needs include: tours by trained docents in 8 languages; Family Mural Making Project; Memories at the Museum (docent tours in partnership with USCD’s Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Center); and Creative Engagement (comprehensive art program for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder).
Organization
Timken Museum of Art
Address
2550 5TH AVENUE
Suite 500
SAN DIEGO
92103-6612
County
San Diego
Region
Far South
Website
Congressional District
California District 50
State Assembly District
District 78
State Senate District
District 39
