Queer Ancestors Project presents UNDER PRESSURE

Queer Ancestors Project’s UNDER PRESSURE exhibition and community print party returns, celebrating the hard work and culminating projects of the QAP Resists 2026 cohort!

Along with the exhibition, this event features free empanadas by Doña Aida and print sale so attendees can support these incredible emerging artists. You can also bring your own t-shirt and get it printed with any artists’ print from the show for FREE!

This event is free, all ages, wheelchair accessible, and will be held in SOMArts’ outdoor patio area. Masks welcome and encouraged, not required.

Gratitude for support from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund Creative Power Awards, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, SOMArts, & Queer Cultural Center

Printing is free and is on a first come, first serve basis, limited capacity! We recommend you bring the following for the best quality print:

• Lighter colors best
• No buttons, snaps, or other hardware
• No long sleeves, no velour, fleece, terrycloth

• alexandra
• amal (hope)
• Erynn Lynn Ruiz
• Jess Shen
• JoJo
• Kieran Trần
• Oacchoné Pierrot
• Sanya
• Sierra Mancia
• Sydney Nemetz
• and with QAP Creative Director Katie Gilmartin

Artwork credit: Jess Shen, “Hope Is a Discipline”

Artwork credit: amal (hope), “Rights Are Not Regained Without Resistance”