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Drag FlagsAleo Landeta & Kit Robbins (they/them)thermo ash, hemlock, brass, screen print, and make-up mono print on cotton hanky, 2026Drag Flags explores the fluidity and performance of gender — how easily it can be worn, shed, and reimagined. Each handkerchief is made using a make-up monoprint by a drag artist, then screen printed with a pattern referencing the historical hanky code — part of a long tradition of queers leaving intimate messages for one another, like lipstick on a mirror. The hankies are displayed within a Thermo Ash sculpture whose gestural form evokes just that.Aleo Landeta and Kit Robbins (HRT Studio) are queer, trans artists and partners based in Oakland whose practices explore identity, transformation, and the complexities of lived experience. Aleo works across drawing, painting, installation, and public programming, centering queer joy as liberation, while Kit's approach to woodworking and metalworking uses biomorphic forms to examine the tensions between human identity and societal perception. Together their work reflects a shared commitment to authenticity and the ongoing process of self-determination.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Photographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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✧₊⁺ ݁⊹ ˖ .✮⋆˙｡⋆ .Have you ever wanted to volunteer at MACLA? Help us transition our new exhibition! ✮ Tasks may include:* Painting walls* Assisting vinyl install* Art handlingDm for more info! ✧₊⁺Dates: August 11th-14th by @macla_sanjose
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Juanita GlaMore!J Manuel Carmona (he/him)Gilded gold leather, handpainted/printed canvas, lamé, chromatic PVC vinyl, upholstery textiles & wood, 2026This piece presents a portrait of San Francisco drag icon Juanita MORE!, created through layered textiles that form her profile. Using fabric as the primary material references the essential role of clothing, costume, and adornment in drag culture and queer identity. Created in collaboration with Austin Steele, the work highlights fashion as a tool for transformation, performance, and visibility. It also honors Juanita’s lasting impact on the Bay Area’s LGBTQ+ community.Juan Manuel Carmona is a Mexican-American Queer architectural designer and multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. His work spans murals, sculpture, and visual art, exploring the intersection of LGBTQIA+ and Latinx identities through public art. Through his practice, he amplifies visibility, celebrates community, and reflects the experience of living between cultures. Austin Steele is a San Francisco–based queer U.S. Army veteran, MFA Fashion Product Developer, MBA Design Strategist, and multidisciplinary artist.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Photographs by @@_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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JesterNiko Sanrio (she/her)upcycled linens, 2026I wanted this look to depict a modern jester. It teeters the tight line between fashion and costume; emphasizing the way what we wear can all be part of performing.Niko Sanrio is a drag clown based out of Detroit, Michigan. Specializing in costume design using recycled materials she blends high fashion and bafoonery into one.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Photographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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Cortezuma CostumeRaphael Noz (he/him/she/her)adorned clothing, 1964Cortezuma is a persona that emerged from excavating my Mexican heritage. This is the child of Conquistador and the Tlatoani. This child is blinded by the crown (s)he wears- it is too big, it covers the eyes. These shoes are inspired by the prostitutes of Tijuana. This is Cortezuma’s second pair. The first pair completely fell apart. They were thrown away.Born in Los Angeles, Noz lived in Florence, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. She’sexhibited at Berkeley Art Museum, YBCA, San Diego Museum of Art, SF Maritime Museum, and Provincetown Art Association & Museum. Noz holds a MFA from CCA, and an MS from Wheelock College, Boston. He currently teaches at SJSU, and at de Young Museum of Art.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Photographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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Cabrillo Gallery invites all Latino/a/x artists to submit work to our juried national call for entries for the upcoming exhibition, “LatinXperiencia 2026: La Resiliencia.” Submission deadline: July 29Exhibition: September 28 - October 27, 2026“Resilience” is a superpower! During challenging circumstances and difficult times it can give us the strength to persevere through great adversity with fortitude, and it can provide the flexibility and resourcefulness to find pathways forward with a creative mindset. How do you envision resilience? We invite you to submit artworks that reflect some aspect of this potent and complex idea.This call is open to Latino/a/x artists living in the US, working in any art media / discipline. The artwork content does not in any way have to be specific to Latino/a/x themes or culture, although it can be, of course. We welcome any and all interpretations, imagery and content that captures the idea of “resilience.” Juror: Alyssarhaye Graciano, Visual Arts Curator at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. For more information and to submit work to the call, follow the link in our bio. You can also go to this link: opportunities.wearecreativewest.org/opportunity/17714/CAFECabrillo Gallery re-opens August 24. We are looking forward to seeing you in the gallery this fall! To find out more about our exhibitions please follow the link in our bio.(New) Gallery Hours:Mon-Fri 9:30am-4pmWed + Thurs evening 6:30-8pm#LatinX call for entries#LatinX call for entry#MACLA#LatinXperiencia by @macla_sanjose
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Fem FruitsTimna Naim (they/them)bronze, 2021Fem Fruits is a celebration of a time in my life where I invested in dancing in heels, performing in drag, and walking on runways. Femininity as a performance, but also has a teacher. This is crossed with fruits from my childhood and citrus from my California upbringing. The work reassesses my relationship to growth, femininity, and gender bending as they intersect with location and culture.Timna Naim, a San José-based artist, holds an MFA in Spatial Art focused on sculpture, interactive installation, and performance and an MA in Teaching concentrated on learning through introspection, play, and community. The diverse nature of their bi-racial, multi-ethnic, and queer identities has given them insight into how cultures and contexts interact to inform identity. Naim comes from North African and Eastern European, Ashkenazi, and Mizrahi Jewish immigrants.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointmentPhotographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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Spiraling OutRayne Liska (he/they)digital video, 2026Let me slip into something more palatable—perhaps more appealing to your eye.See me, believe me, am I doing it right, is this how you live a lie?Rayne Liska (b. 1994, Shiprock, New Mexico) is a Two-Spirit Hopi artist currently studying at San José State University. Focusing on the fields of social work and studio practice, Rayne is interested in exploring the complex relationship between art and social systems. Understanding storytelling as an essential element to his work, Rayne finds his voice through spatial and performance art.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointmentPhotographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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Kick Me When I’m ClownHarpreet Lachhar (they/them/theirs)stoneware and underglaze, 2024Kick Me When I’m Clown is a visual representation of how no matter what mask you show to society you will always be kicked down. When you ask the greater populace how they feel about clowns you commonly hear “they are creepy”, “they are weird”, “you can’t trust them”. To me clowns are colorful and amusing, always showcasing their authentic selves. Yet within those endeavors they are still ridiculed, just like me.Harpreet Lachhar is a queer multi-media artist based in the East Bay Area, with a focus in ceramic sculpture. Harpreet started their ceramic journey during their time at San Jose State University, where they fell in love with the medium and earned a BA in Radio/Television/Film. They use ceramics as an outlet to express their identity through figures, color, and queer imagery. They now volunteer in their free time at SJSU’s ceramics department.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Photographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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Through The Eyes Of QuivaProtein Pussy Girls (he/they/we/she/them)inkjet prints, spit, paper, acrylic, pants hanger, 2026Our project reinterprets these portraits as a triptych, realized through collaborative craft. Each photograph is encased within laser-cut acrylic, reflective surfaces, paper, and found object. These frames construct a narrative of queer identity and reformation of self through its refracted form. Where archiving queerness is more crucial now than ever, where representation of identity is diminished by colonial-rooted laws and regulations, Quiva’s bring an everlasting force of authenticity to the forefront.Protein Pussy Girls (PP Girls) is a collective of artists: Noé Naranjo Arias, Phin Nguyen, and Kimo Anderson. Noé Naranjo Arias operates as a transdisciplinary artist, utilizing the computer as a speculative and emotional tool to examine how algorithms, networks, and digital image systems shape identity and collective presence in an ever-rendering reality. Alongside Arias, multidisciplinary artist Phin Nguyen draws from personal experience and trauma to subconsciously self-document contemporary Vietnamese motifs through the lenses of feminism, spirituality, queerness, and homesickness. Meanwhile, Kimo Anderson is an analogue film photographer and storyteller who captures daily moments to archive memory, legacy, and the weight of physical negatives as a bridge to a brighter future.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment Photographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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UnravelingKit Robbins (they/he)stainless steel & Douglas Fir, 2026Unraveling was inspired by a passage from Pageboy in which Elliot Page describes the painful but necessary process of becoming oneself. The oversized spool unraveling overhead suggests both transformation and deconstruction — an unwinding of identity shaped by the complicated relationship many trans people experience with gendered clothing.Passage:“I don’t want to disappear. I want to exist in my body, with these new possibilities. Possibilities. Perhaps that is one of the main components of life lost to lack of representation. Options erased from the imagination. Narratives indoctrinated that we spend an eternity attempting to break. The unraveling is painful, but it leads you to you.” – Elliot Page.Kit Robbins is a queer, trans, multidisciplinary artist and fabricator based in Oakland who focuses primarily on woodworking and metalworking. Their work explores themes around their transgender identity and the complexities of human identity vs. societal perceptions. Their artistic process is instinctive, often allowing the form to be influenced by the raw material itself.MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointmentPhotographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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pink BedroomAleo Landeta (they/them)soft pastel on canvas, 2026Pink Bedroom is a meditation on queer interior spaces. A young figure sits pouting on their bed, dressed in a frilly pink dress inside a Pepto-Bismol pink room. The bedroom window opens outward onto nature: unruly, ungendered, full of possibility. The work asks when, and whether, we gain true autonomy over the small choices that constitute selfhood: the color of our walls, the clothes on our bodies.Aleo Landeta is a trans and Latine visual artist and educator based in Oakland whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, and public programming. Their work centers queer joy as liberation, drawing from lived experience and the communities that have held space for them to live authentically. They have been exhibited at MACLA, Bedford Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Jonathan Carver Moore, among others, with work held in the permanent collection of the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Recent support includes the SoEx Alternative Exposure Grant (2025), the King Artist Residency (2024), and the Homebody Fellowship at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio (2022).MACLA’s Queerennial: Identity Through Fashion is now on view through August 9th! Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm or by appointmentPhotographs by @_miguelozuna by @macla_sanjose
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