The Virtual Art Gallery encourages media literacy and the exploration of digital art by offering students and artists around the world an online venue to share their vision of heroism. The Gallery seeks original artworks that portray heroes, heroism, or heroic deeds in a variety of mediums, including animation, collage and assemblage, digital imagery, mixed media, painting, photography and film, printmaking, sculpture and video.

  Victoria Murphy, Curator of the MY HERO Gallery, is a professor of art history, and an art museum educational consultant, as well as the author of several art catalogs. As an experienced gallery curator, she launched the Virtual Art Gallery in 2004. Her lesson plans have been posted online and can be used by teachers of students of all ages. Victoria has conducted workshops with students and teachers in Southern California and in Dakar, Senegal. Students and professional artists from around the world have submitted their artworks to the Virtual Gallery. In February 2005, MY HERO jointly sponsored the first exhibition of African Mosaics of Uganda at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. The exhibition was a success for the college, local community, gallery attendees, and also for the exhibiting Ugandan artists. A film of the exhibition and of the Ugandan artists making their mosaics has been streamed online on the MY HERO Gallery Web site.