In Spring 2026, we will be offering two mentee positions for individuals who want deeper, hands-on experience in arts administration and festival production. Appointed mentees will receive a stipend.
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Submissions for IWL 2026 are open until Sunday, March 22nd! We’re excited to announce this year’s instructors including Shelley Wong, author of As She Appears (National Book Award Longlist), Shruti Swamy, author of The Archer (Winner of the California Book Award), and Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, Yosimar Reyes!
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We’re so excited to announce our instructors for this year’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, KSW three-month summer program focused on BIPOC writers happening June 3 - August 19th.
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The San Francisco Chronicle featured Truong Tran and his recent solo exhibition at KSW, “100 Nights of Pandemic/100 Days of Yearning,“ co-presented by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. Olivia Cruz Mayeda's article thoughtfully explores the emotional depth of Truong's practice.
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AVA Lab is a 9+ week hybrid seminar, professional practices, and cultural organizing intensive and is intended to develop and mentor APA visual artists looking to deepen their praxis in and with community, rooted in KSW’s organizational praxis of Solidarity, Renewal, Futurity, and Autonomy.
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The arts are and will always be central to how we come to celebrate as well as how we articulate and imagine community. Thank you all for supporting KSW! We wanted to take a moment to reflect on what make KSW a place of connection, art, and possibility. Here are some of the incredible programs from 2025:
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IWL Winter Sessions provides an opportunity for students to work with experienced teaching artists in poetry and prose in two 4-week sessions during January-March. Applicants can apply for one or both sessions.
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This winter, Kearny Street Workshop’s (KSW) “Community is Everything” is a belief that will build a better society for future generations. Our goal is to raise $35,000 at www.givebutter.com/ksw! Thank you to all who have helped us raised $12,000 of this goal!
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Community is Everything” is a belief that will build a better society for future generations. We have raised $9,500 of our annual $35,000 at www.givebutter.com/ksw with wonderful pledges of support coming down the pipeline! Thank you deeply to our early donors, for the pledges of support, and to our incredible Board of Directors who do so much to caretake for this community.
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APAture celebrated its 26th year of bringing together an inspiring community of emerging artists for two weeks of performances and exhibitions across the Bay Area. From October 18th to November 8th, we produced four showcases and an Art Fair in venues including Arc Gallery, SOMArts, and Roxie Theater.
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Giving Tuesday is your chance to donate to Kearny Street Workshop’s “Community is Everything” - we’ve set an ambitious but necessary goal is to raise $35,000 at www.givebutter.com/ksw! Your meaningful gift will help us get closer to building sustainability for our work empowering AAPI communities through arts and culture. Through your consistent support over the years, KSW has weathered many storms. This next year is sure to be a tough one for many nonprofits, arts organizations, and AAPI communities. It is no different for KSW. Will you show up for KSW again, to help us through this difficult season?
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