2026 AAPI Art Showcase: The Futures We Carry (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Kearny Street Workshop Presents the Opening Reception of the Futures We Carry from our 2026 AVA Lab Cohort.

Participating Artists

Brittani Wei-Ling Chew, Cole Lata , Cynthia PhươngAnh Lê, Julie Kim, Jy Jimmie Flora Gabiola, Lark Chang-Yeh, Theresa Panyawai, VC Tang, Will Liang

About the Exhibition

The 2026 AVA Lab exhibition presents works that imagine futures carried forward through memory, resistance, and collective imagination. Grounded in ancestral and cultural knowledge, the exhibition foregrounds counter-narratives that challenge dominant histories and propose alternative ways of being, belonging, and organizing life together.

Rather than presenting the future as speculative or detached, the exhibition positions it as already in motion—embedded in inherited practices, community rituals, survival strategies, and acts of care. The works reflect how artists navigate tension, difference, and transformation, offering visions shaped by accountability, cultural continuity, and community wisdom.

Together, the exhibition becomes a space of convergence: where personal histories meet collective futures, where grief and imagination coexist, and where art functions as a tool for remembering, re-visioning, and building power beyond the individual.

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