Essential Threads, Works by Ariana Martinez-Cruz | April 3 - 26, 2026

Essential Threads is a collection by Ariana Martinez-Cruz that includes 6 original designs exploring blue collar workforce industries: domestic labor, textile (seamstress/tailor), machinery and mechanical, food service, and agriculture.

The collection showcases haute couture, traditional sewing & embroidery techniques, and mixed media, to reframe and re-contextualize workforce industry uniforms, ultimately stitching wearable art. Martinez-Cruz is a 2026 recipient of the SF Art Commission’s "Shaping Legacy" grant, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation.  Rather than bronze or stone, Martinez-Cruz's living memorials uses sewn textile layers and appliqué designs on fabric panels, and wearable art to honor the overlooked labor of San Francisco's garment workers, cultural organizers, and immigrant families whose labor, artistry, and resilience have shaped the city’s identity.

Please Don't Touch, Works by Bussie Parker Kehoe and Cécilia Lusven | May 1 - 31, 2026

Ever since childhood, artists Cécilia Lusven and Bussie Parker Kehoe have had to resist the urge to touch everything they see. That impulse now sits at the core of their practices.

Working with simple, overlooked materials—leather remnants and old bicycle inner tubes for Lusven, discarded house paint for Kehoe—both artists test the limits of their mediums, pushing them to unexpected ends. Their works are tactile and sculptural, inviting contact, yet are accompanied by the familiar warning: “please don’t touch!"

Un/Natural works by Liz Harvey | June 5 - 28, 2026

In coordination with Gay Pride month, MAG Galleries will be presenting the works of Liz Harvey.  Un/Natural features exuberant sculptures, textile works, and works on paper that use layered and saturated color and jostling patterns to call into question what is “natural”.

Harvey’s playful and nimble sculptures, which she calls “plant hybrids from the future,” combine fabric, wire, paper, plaster, and paint to disrupt notions of purity. Her textiles and works on paper highlight historical lesbian love, presenting it as both poetry and protest. In her most recent works, she leaps to national politics as a voluminous and fragile pile of lies.

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Essential Threads, Designs by Ariana Martinez-Cruz

Please Don't Touch, Works by Cécilia Lusven and Bussie Parker Kehoe

Un/Natural, Works by Liz Harvey

2026 Exhibition Schedule