Gallery Beyond Walls (GBW) is a multi-faceted, visual arts program focused on engaging the community in the arts, facilitating dialogue, revitalizing marginalized communities, and highlighting freedom of expression. Creative projects can be created by the community themselves, as a collaboration between the community and professional artists, or solely by professional artists with input from the community. The projects can result in small-scale art projects (such as paintings), exhibitions, large-scale permanent interventions (such as murals or public art “sculptures”), or temporary installations.
Projects Include
Here/There: Chúng Tôi
Through the varying practices from eight artists across the United States, Canada, and Việt Nam, the exhibition takes a moment to champion, to celebrate, and to relish in the adaptation of care in culture, community, and tradition; in ways that are alive, new, and transformative.
Yellow Submarine Rising Currents within Asian American Art
Inspired by the #StopAsianHate movement and the resilience of the AAPI community. The reoccurring acts of anti-Asian hate in our country—from the xenophobic policies of the 1800s, to the unjust internment of Japanese Americans, to the unresolved murder of Vincent Chin, and to the alarming rise of violence since the pandemic targeting our most vulnerable—are affronts to our American ideals of equality, justice, diversity, and our Constitutional hope for “domestic tranquility.”
Chapter 2: Rewind, Reverse
Explores cultural identity and connection, as captured through narratives of childhood memories, cultural expression, anxiety, self-acceptance, and the reclamation of identities.
Project Foto
Offering young women a creative voice while fostering positive self-esteem and developing media skills.
Illuminated Recipes
Illuminated Recipes is a project that uses the power of food and art to document the refugee experience, foster conversation, and connect people across generations and cultures.
