Calls from Home
Exhibition Dates: Monday, April 6, 2026 through Thursday, April 30, 2026
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 12 PM – 5 PM
Location: the Atrium at 18th Street Arts Center, 1639 18th Street Santa Monica CA 90404
Soft Opening: Monday, April 6, 2026
Reception and Screening: Friday, April 24th, 2026, from 1PM – 6PM
SANTA MONICA, CA — The Santa Monica College (SMC) Art Department in Collaboration with the 18th Street Arts Center, presents Calls from Home, an exhibition mounted by students from the Art 80/82/84 Gallery Exhibitions & Display course run by Professor Kim Garcia.
Calls from Home understands home as a living & fluid condition. Whether the featured artists explore displacement by state violence, gentrification, appropriation, or environmental disaster, movement is a common thread that weaves together each work. The artists, who currently call Los Angeles home, explore themes of cultural memory, negotiating identity, reclaiming space, and building community. How do we respond to feeling out of place? What do we bring? What do we leave behind? How can we create sanctuary within ourselves and our community when our life is unstable?
The exhibition features work by Luciana Abait, Jeff Beall, Takashi Horisaki, Dan Kwong, Momo Nagano Kwong, Rivka Nehorai, Ara Oshagan, and Carol Zou.
Organized by the student curatorial team from Santa Monica College’s Gallery Exhibitions & Display program, the exhibition was developed through close collaboration with the staff and artists in residence at 18th Street Arts Center. Founded in 1988, 18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit artist residency in Santa Monica that supports artists from around the world as they research, experiment, and develop new work that engages communities and fosters cultural dialogue.
