Southern Exposure: Emerged Under Covers

Youth Art Exhibition
Emerged Under Covers

July 12–August 30, 2025

Closing Reception: Thursday, August 28, 2025. 5:00–7:00 PM

Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday,

Mission Voices Summer Youth Program presents Emerged Under Covers. In summer 2025, students in residence at SoEx’s gallery utilized an array of mediums and materials to explore mending — of self, of story, of the weight we carry. Through layers of fabric, pattern, collage, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, they reflect on themes of care, labor, inheritance, and the histories we pass down and piece together.

As part of the program, students collaborated with guest artists Cordy Joan and Gaia Wu of the Transmissions Quilts Project, co-creating a communal quilt that reflects a shared practice of mending and meaning-making.

Emerged Under Covers is a testament to what unfolds when we create together — not in spite of what we carry, but because of it.

Annika A

Bailey G

Ella G

Ella LP

Fields B

Kate L

Krooked OCB

Iris L

Natalie N

OLEU

Richa N

Stephanie H

Ziah C

Lead teaching artists:

June Nelson & Simon Tran

Guest artists:

Cordy Joan and Gaia Wu of the Transmissions Quilts Project

Lead teaching artists:

June Nelson & Simon Tran

Guest artists:

Cordy Joan and Gaia Wu of the Transmissions Quilts Project