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“My Toys” by Xintong Deng is featured in “Fresh Works Juniors” in the Harrington Gallery in 2025. (Image courtesy Firehouse Arts) 
“Reminiscing” by Jaeie Kim is featured in “Fresh Works Juniors” in the Harrington Gallery in 2025. (Image courtesy Firehouse Arts) 
“White Jug” by Tessie Berger is featured in “Fresh Works Juniors” in the Harrington Gallery in 2025. (Image courtesy Firehouse Arts) 
“Finborough Theater” by Feifei Nowatzki is featured in “Fresh Works Juniors” in the Harrington Gallery in 2025. (Image courtesy Firehouse Arts) 
“Trail of the Past” by Eynn Choi is featured in “Fresh Works Juniors” in the Harrington Gallery in 2025. (Image courtesy Firehouse Arts)
The creativity of budding Bay Area artists is on display for the next two months in the newest exhibition in Pleasanton’s Harrington Gallery.
“Fresh Works Juniors” — a youth-centered version of the gallery’s annual “Fresh Works” exhibit — features artwork from children and teenagers in kindergarten through 12th grade in the Tri-Valley and beyond, as well as graduates of the 2025 class of high schoolers. Nearly 90 pieces in all, in a diverse range of media and subjects, are included in the showing that opened last weekend in downtown Pleasanton.
“’Fresh Works Juniors’ is a testament to the boundless imagination and fearless experimentation that young artists bring to the table,” gallery curator Sydney Tang said of the exhibition, billed as the first-of-its-kind at the Harrington.
“Their work demonstrates how fresh perspectives can shift the way we see the world through a single decisive brushstroke or an unexpected collage,” Tang added. “Visitors can expect to be energized by the young artists’ creativity and original use of traditional mediums and materials. It is our hope that ‘Fresh Works Juniors’ not only showcases young talent from all over the Bay Area, but nurtures the next generation of artists from our community.”
Las Positas College art teacher Dave Wagner, an artist who studied at Cal Poly, the California College of the Arts, and the New York Academy of Art, served as the judge for the exhibition awards, which were handed out at the opening reception Saturday.
“Fresh Works Juniors” runs through Oct. 11 at the gallery in the city’s Firehouse Arts Center at 4444 Railroad Ave.
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