In addition, the project space features a display about Bay Windows, including bios and portraits of each designer.

Kearny Street Workshop is located at Arc Studios & Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Gallery hours: Wed & Thur 1–6, Sat 12–3

Presented by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s United States of Asian America Festival.

December 2025–March 2026: Public Artwork & Presentation

Yap will interpret the small, delicate paper cuts into durable illuminated lanterns. The lanterns will be displayed in the storefronts of values-aligned organizations in Chinatown, SOMA, and the Mission District. They will be accompanied by trilingual maps, walking tours, and video interviews of each participating designer. This decentralized, neighborhood-based, three-month exhibition and programs will be accessible to the public at no charge.

2022–2023: Track record

Bay Windows reconvenes a cohort that was first assembled for How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 (2022–2023), a collaboration with Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCCSF) and numerous community organizations in Chinatown & the Mission District, which resulted in banners carried in the 2023 Chinese New Year Parade, an exhibition at CCCSF seen by 20,000 visitors, and features on El Tecolote, Hyperallergic, KGO ABC 7, KTVU Fox 2, KQED, and Sing Tao Daily.

Help Bring Bay Windows to Life

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Additional funding is needed to enhance the scale and production level of the lanterns and video interviews for audience members to see and hear each designer speaking for herself in her native language.

Sponsor or volunteer

Contribute your talents in translation/proofreading of Chinese or Spanish, or fundraising to our artist-led, community-rooted project.

Host a lantern

Values-aligned organizations, businesses, institutions, or schools with street-level storefront windows are invited to help us uplift immigrant women’s voices by hosting a lantern in your storefront, which will be activated with walking-tour related programs from December 2025 to March 2026.

Help us get the word out

Amplify this call now, and share the exhibition, lanterns, and walking tours later, among your community.
 

Contact Christine Wong Yap at for more info.

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Credit: Christine Wong Yap and contributors, Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花, 2025–ongoing, social practice, mixed media; dimensions variable.

Bay Windows is supported by a 2025 Creative Capital Award, the Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts program, A Blade of Grass’ Field Funds, and ASIAN, Inc.
 

Exhibition organized with Kearny Street Workshop and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, presented by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 2025 United States of Asian America Festival.
 

Project Team: Lee Oscar Gomez, Andreína Maldonado, Xiaoqing Shi, Weikun Tang, Beatriz Vasquez, Stephen Xie, Christine Wong Yap.

Community Partners: Kearny Street Workshop, Galería de la Raza.

Photos by Christine Wong Yap, Aaron Stark, Jenna Garrett. Video edited by Nick Schiarizzi courtesy of Creative Capital; subtitling by Stephan Xie.

Thank you to all the selection panelists and funders; Hoi Leung and YY Zhu at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco for unwavering allyship; Jason Bayani and Mihee Kim at Kearny Street Workshop for partnership, fundraising support, and fiscal sponsorship; Rich Lomibao and Mikhael Ganesh for exhibition assistance; Susana Rojas and Xochitl Frausto at Calle 24 Latino Cultural District and Dr. Martyna Ayala at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts for advice and support; Weston Teruya for feedback.