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Thanks to everyone who came by last night!! It was truly beautiful to see how everyone was deeply invested in understanding each of these shows, so many wonderful conversations. You too can experience the magic each of these artists created, truly captivating experiences🙏🏼💚🩵💙 up through June 28th, with a closing party on June 27 from 6-8pm. @bygriffinliu @shiftingself @savannahtines10

Join us tonight! May 16th 6-9pm, for three amazing exhibitions. We All Live With Dreams by Jay Katelansky @shiftingself and Dream of Dawn by Yuming “Griffin” Liu @bygriffinliu , plus the start to an exhibition in continuous transformation, A Walk in the Night by Savannah Tines @savannahtines10 . Links in the bio to learn more about these exhibitions! 💙💚🩵

A few sneak peeks at the process, including exactly how they arrived which is equally amazing!!! Opening this Saturday May 16th from 6-9pm, and you can meet the mind behind all this brilliance, @bygriffinliu Dream of Dawn by Yuming “Griffin” Liu Opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 6 - 9 PM Exhibitions run May 17 - June 28, 2026 ​ Yuming “Griffin” Liu’s work explores themes of displacement, solitude, and the tension between institutional control and human agency through surreal miniature landscapes. Shaped by his family’s seven-year limbo as asylum seekers, his practice reflects the emotional weight of waiting—for decisions, responses, and permission to move forward. In these works, waiting becomes a condition of powerlessness under bureaucratic systems. Liu transforms that experience into scenes where reality and imagination merge, creating landscapes of poetic melancholy, psychological tension, and dreamlike stillness.

Catch the beginning next Saturday May 16th from 6-9pm, as this exhibition continues to transform until the closing. Closing Reception: Saturday, June 27, 2026, 6 - 8 PM Savannah’s Closing has a Summer beach theme-So feel free to dress to the theme or to come as you are. Exhibitions run May 17 - June 28, 2026 SooVAC’s Front Space Residency Presents: Savannah Tines will be the first artist to participate in SooVAC’s pilot program, the Front Space Residency. Throughout 2026, artists will create work both on-site and off-site during their exhibitions, allowing their projects to evolve and adapt over the course of the show. Tines will have a closing reception to showcase how the work has developed over the course of her exhibition, A Walk in the Night. Savannah Tines is a multidisciplinary artist who creates speculative ecosystems where nature intersects with the remnants of technological collapse. Her work, grounded in sculpture and abstraction, combines materials such as glass, metals, and found objects with living systems, including fungi and aquatic plants. These immersive installations act as microclimates that breathe, decay, and regenerate, exploring themes of mortality, adaptation, and ecological grief. @savannahtines10 ; Exhibitions opening also include: We all live with dreams by Jay Katelansky @shiftingself and Dream of Dawn by Griffin Liu @bygriffinliu

Here’s an in progress shot of one of the shows opening next weekend 🩵. Jay Katelansky’s art explores how Black bodies navigate safety in the United States. Their exhibition, We All Live With Dreams, poses the question of whose dreams we inhabit: our own or those inherited from our ancestors. This solo exhibition reflects on how we carry the hopes, sacrifices, and love of those who came before us as we navigate the milestones that shape our lives. The work celebrates the human inclination to dream of better futures while also honoring what we already have. @shiftingself

One last remembrance of the fun that was had at Spring Fling 2026! Video stylings by @fairooznazifa We wouldn’t be here without community support now and into the future 💚. Get excited for the next shows opening May 16th from 6-9pm. Link in the bio to learn more about these stars @bygriffinliu @shiftingself @savannahtines10

We’ve got a couple years to go but it’s almost been 20 years of working together, through about a thousand ups and downs we’ve kept SooVAC going, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s been an honor and a privilege serving the arts community 💚🙌🏼 Here’s to many more @carpandapayne @alisonhiltner

Feast your eyes on what’s next! Opening Saturday May 16 from 6-9pm; “Dream of Dawn” by Griffin Liu, “We All Live With Dreams” by Jay Katelansky, and “A Walk in the Night” by Savannah Tines, will be at the beginning with an alternate ending for Tines’s closing June 27th from 6-8pm. @bygriffinliu @shiftingself @savannahtines10

A huge thank you to everyone that came out to support us or bought tickets online for our Spring Fling Fundraiser and 25th anniversary kick off, plus all the artists, volunteers and sponsors that made the magic happen 🌷💚🙏🏼. We have more photos and videos coming next week. Our next shows open Saturday May 16th check soovac.org for more details!!!

Join us to celebrate 25 years and counting, doors open at 6pm, your friends and this little cutie will be waiting! By @jomaccudo Tickets to enter and chances to win art are still available throughout the evening 💚🌷✨.

Last Spring Fling PSA!!!! Online ticket sales end at midnight tonight, April 24th. But never fear there will be tickets at the door on April 25th doors open at 6pm, because nobody loves you the way SooVAC loves you😘. LINK IN THE BIO🌷

Spring Fling PSA: We’re going back to pencil and paper bid sheets for these gems so you’ll have to attend the event or find a proxy for a chance to include these in your collection, link in the bio🌷. “Cuando el patrón se convierte en una constelación 2” by Nancy Ariza (When the Pattern Becomes a Constellation 2) 2025 Screenprint and dry pigment screenprint on cochineal and quebracho dyed paper, chine collé 16 x 20” @nancy__ariza ; #33 Twined Corn Husk Bottle by Rosy Simas; Twined Cornhusks, 2026 @rosysimasdanse ; Bulbs, and Batteries” by Chris Rackley, 2023; Gouache, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, 9 x 11 inches (framed) @rackleystudio