Save the Date: The Futures We Carry Closing Reception

photo by Cole Lata

Saturday, June 13 12-3pm
KSW @Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA

Join us for the closing reception of Futures We Carry. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

Free; accessibility accommodations available upon request (email info@kearnystreet.org).

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.

About AVA Lab

AVA Lab is a 7+ week mentorship and community arts fellowship intended to guide Asian American and Pacific Islander visual artists looking to deepen their praxis in community. This program is intended to move beyond the traditional modes of learning in the arts and focus on not only our artistic practice, but how we as artists work with and within our communities.