17 Bay Area Arts Groups Receive Grants for Further Triennial Shows

Back in September 2024, when the Further Triennial was first announced, the coordinated program of exhibitions and events seemed awfully far away. Now, March 10–June 10, 2027 is just around the corner, and the much-anticipated finer details of this celebration of Bay Area art — past and present — are finally coming into focus.

Today, the triennial announced 17 recipients of its Community Impact Fund: grants of $20,000 each for arts organizations with QTBIPOC leadership and operating budgets under $2 million. The funds help ensure that smaller projects and spaces can participate in the triennial, alongside major players like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Oakland Museum of California.

Over 80 institutions are already planning to participate in Around Here, as the inaugural triennial is titled; the programming will include sites from Santa Cruz to Sacramento.

“The Bay Area is home to a remarkable constellation of organizations, many devoted to distinct communities that are working with scarce means,” said Kevin B. Chen in today’s announcement. Chen was one of four jurors who evaluated applications for the Community Impact Fund; final recipients were chosen by a randomized process.

“The team behind Further Triennial moves with a keen awareness of this vast cultural ecosystem,” Chen stated, “guided by a commitment to ensure that even those without deep reserves can bring their visions to life.”

Awarded projects include a site-specific wheatpaste installation; artists in dialogue with a collection of queer erotic photography; and a celebration of 50 years of Precita Eyes’ neighborhood murals.

One of the more ambitious presentations is Southern Exposure’s reimagined display of the show California Mission Daze, first held in San Diego’s Installation Gallery. The original 1988 exhibition, created by artists David Avalos, James Luna and Deborah Small along with historian William Weeks, turned a critical eye to the mission system and its treatment of Indigenous people. (The show took place just after Junípero Serra was beatified by the Catholic church; the Spanish missionary was canonized as a saint in 2015.)

EastSide Arts Alliance will host two grant-supported shows. One, presented by NAKA Dance Theater, features the textile art of Indigenous Maya Mam women living in East Oakland. The other is a solo show of work by contemporary local artist Connie Zheng, who will map the grassroots, underground networks created by community-led health programs over the past 60 years.

Grant recipients include both physical spaces (Santa Cruz’s Indexical, San Francisco’s Root Division) and roving projects like Muni Raised Me, an artist collective responsible for the vibrant, titular SOMArts show in 2023. (They’re the ones with the tricked-out, decommissioned Muni bus.) For the full list of grantees, see below.

Community Impact Fund grantees

500 Capp Street Foundation
Black Panther Party Museum
Bob Mizer Museum and Photographic Archives
Chinese Historical Society of America
EastSide Arts Alliance
Hip Hop For Change
Indexical
Kala Art Institute
Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Muni Raised Me
NAKA Dance Theater
Precita Eyes Muralists
Root Division
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Slash
Small Press Traffic
Southern Exposure