Future Exhibits
Holding Spaces Project
Holding Spaces Project
Steven Hatchett, Curated by Taylor Danielle Davis
Gallery (2nd Floor Southwest)
About the Exhibit
ARTIST RECEPTION: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 5:30pm-8:00pm
The Holding Spaces Project is a love letter to the people who make Austin feel like home. It celebrates Black entrepreneurs who have built spaces that feed, nurture, and reflect their communities, even as the city around them changes.
Through portraits and stories, the project highlights local visionaries like Riches Art Gallery, Kicking It ATX, Luv Fats Ice Cream, serving up sweet flavors inspired by family and heritage; Shag Noir, Cajjun Eats, a kitchen rooted in community and comfort; and Black Pearl Books, a bookstore reminding us that stories are one of the most powerful ways to hold space.
Together, their work tells a larger story, one about belonging, resilience, and what it really means to hold space for each other in a city that’s still learning how to do the same.
Curated by Taylor Danielle Davis. Additional sponsors _OFCOLOR , Black Pearl Books , The Library Foundation
About the Artist
Steven Hatchett is a portrait photographer rooted in Austin for the past eight years. What drives him is the quiet power of seeing — really seeing — Black life, in all its complexity, beauty, struggle, and joy. His images weave social commentary into contemporary expressions of identity, community, labor, and play.
His show All Kinds of Black in Tech was exhibited at AfroTech and at the Austin Public Library, where his work invited reflection, celebration, and conversation about access, presence, and belonging in tech spaces.
But Steven’s mission extends beyond creating images. He is the co-founder of _OFCOLOR, a nonprofit born out of a desire to uplift emerging artists of color, not just through exposure, but through mentorship, resources, and collective creative power. Over the years, _OFCOLOR has grown into a focal point of artistic growth, cultural dialogue, and community in Austin.
About _OFCOLOR : _OFCOLOR is a non-profit organization, an emerging arts alliance dedicated to cultivating a community of creatives and launching inclusive spaces for artists of color to showcase their craft and talents. Established out of a need to spotlight underrepresented communities in Austin, the organization devotes its efforts to uplifting the work of BIPOC artists, initiating visibility, and forging opportunities.
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PRESENCE
PRESENCE
Tumi Adeleye, Nathaly Charria Jiménez, and Geelah
Living Room (6th Floor South)
About the Exhibit
PRESENCE, curated by Ibiye Anga and organized by Art Curatorial Inc., explores themes of transformation, ritual, and selfhood through the lens of three artists. Tumi Adeleye examines the fluidity of identity, while Geelah captures Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous traditions in Bahia’s Marujo celebration. Nathaly Charria Jiménez’s LIGHT offers an immersive, interactive experience.
Together, these works bridge continents—Africa, South America, North America, and Europe—using photography and film to connect heritage with contemporary identity. As a multicultural arts group, we curate from lived intersections, centering unique voices and fostering cultural dialogue. PRESENCE challenges and expands Austin’s understanding of belonging, migration, and memory in a global context.
About the Artist
As curator of PRESENCE, Ibiye Anga is deeply invested in the exploration of transformation, relational dynamics, and memory. This exhibition unites three artists whose practices delve into themes of ritual and the fluidity of selfhood across continents.
Tumi Adeleye’s series explores the fluidity of identity, using hair as both a mask and a symbol of self. The work is expressed in both sculpture and photography, each piece reflecting the shifting energy she feels with every change.
Geelah’s work documents Bahia’s Marujo celebration, preserving Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous traditions through vibrant, lens-based storytelling.
Nathaly Charria Jiménez’s LIGHT offers an immersive, interactive cinematic experience that evokes spiritual and emotional connections.
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"...hitched to everything..."
"...hitched to everything..."
Sherry Tseng Hill
Gallery (2nd Floor Southwest)
About the Exhibit
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." ~ John Muir
In this exhibition "...hitched to everything...", Sherry Tseng Hill explores the intricate connections within our natural environment by highlighting the tiny things that often go unnoticed, discarded, or even feared, yet play a crucial role in sustaining our world, such as fungi, slime molds, insects, and decaying leaves.
These small decomposers, pollinators, and food sources help maintain soil health, nutrient cycles, and the overall balance of our ecosystems. As we become more aware of the environmental degradation caused by human activities, we also recognize the urgent need to protect our planet. While these small creatures may seem insignificant, they have a significant impact on our world.
Using translucent mulberry paper as the structural foundation for her work, Tseng Hill considers the delicate balances of nature. Through hand stitching, she layers diverse materials as metaphors for the complexities and interconnectedness of our environment, and contemplate and reflect on the beauty and richness that exist beneath our feet, in the air, in water, soil, and the unseen spaces around us.
About the Artist
Sherry Tseng Hill makes mixed-media artworks that blur the line between the abstract and the representational. Her works incorporate both 2D and 3D elements to explore the texture of connections, as well as the interactions and rhythms of communities, including humans and the More-Than-Human World, while examining borders and edges as sites of friction and violence.
Born and raised in Taiwan, she moved to the US at 14. Part of two cultures yet fully belonging to neither, she lives in the gray area between two states of being: the immediacy of the present and a lingering sense of the distant. Her own experiences with the tensions between two cultures, threatening, violent yet also exciting, vital, and often unavoidable, drive her to think about migration and colonization in the context of climate change and what it means to make a home. Turning over rocks and peeling back tree barks, she looks for traces and crevices, thinks about how they can serve as metaphors for other things- erasure, loss, the passage of time, and what is seen/not seen- to tell stories about our impact on each other and reflect on the art of living together.
Through generations of family tradition in craft-making, she explores her past and re-presents new narratives. Using mulberry paper (a nod to her culture of origin) as structural foundations with materials from everyday surroundings- twigs, palm bark fiber, bamboo grass from a broom, and threads, she layers, felts, weaves, and stitches to explore environmental degradation from the entanglements and legacies of relations.
Tseng Hill received a Bachelor of Architecture (1982) and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Art History (1980) from Rice University, Houston, Texas. After practicing architecture and raising two sons, she completed the BLOCK Program at The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2021-2023), where she currently teaches. Her work is in the public collections of Rice University, Houston Endowment, and the City of Houston, where she was commissioned to create a Public Artwork. Tseng Hill has exhibited at The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rice University, Moody Gallery, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, the San Antonio Art League and Museum, Discovery Green, and The Jung Center. She is represented by Moody Gallery in Houston, Texas.