What story gets left behind when the world decides whose memory counts? Untold Stories is our attempt to connect the dots, to trigger the memories that complete what’s been erased.
As truth seekers from many different walks of life, we’ve made this exhibition a space to hold the true stories so often erased by a system that does not honor immigrants, refugees, Black Americans, queer folks, and those who carry the truth close.
This exhibition allows us to rest in the rememory that Toni Morrison left us in the pages of the untold stories she once uncovered. “Untold Stories” is our dedication to that work, as ARTogether’s 2026 Artist-in-Residence Mentorship Cohort: Aylin Ayee, Bronche Taylor, Donny Phan, Jacquie Verbal, Ji Young Lee, Kia Lat, Sabri Tunca, and Téa Sherman.
Our work spans mixed media, painting, textile art, installation, and performance, holding space for the stories that have not yet been told. We invite you to join us in dialogue about Untold Stories.
**Everything related to this exhibition is fueled by human creativity; no artificial intelligence is condoned.
Learn more about the ARTogether’s Mentorship program and the current cohort here.
ARTogether's 2026 Artists in Residence
Aye Myat Thu (Aylin) is a multidisciplinary illustrator and community-centered artist from Myanmar, now based in the Bay Area. Her work explores healing, belonging, and everyday life through illustration, comics, and participatory art. She creates visual storytelling projects, creative learning tools, and workshops that invite reflection and emotional connection. During the Myanmar crisis, she launched free online drawing classes and later developed a beginner course that reached over 1,600 students. Her practice sits at the intersection of art, education, and wellbeing, aiming to create gentle spaces where creativity becomes a tool for connection and resilience.
Bronchè Taylor is a Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist, director, and cultural curator working at the intersection of performance, storytelling, and community. A graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, his work spans stage, film, and live music, blending raw narrative with refined, immersive design. Rooted in Oakland, Bronchè centers Black expression, legacy, and transformation through art. He is the founder of Black Air, a creative platform uplifting global artists, and the creator of Live Frequency, a performance experience merging sound, story, and audience. His practice is grounded in creating intentional spaces where art feels lived, intimate, and undeniably alive.
Donny Phan’s craft is a love letter to his nonhumans: past and present. The dried plant is central to his practice as it holds memory, transformation, and temporality. He is influenced by the concepts of otherness and universal impermanence. He was a comic-loving kid who dreamt of becoming a mutant with superpowers. The X-Men narrative was an allegory to his own experience of being different and marginalized. To stay out of trouble, his parents gave him tools to create his own superheroes. Imagination is a superpower. plant-tecture is his experimental playground to arrange, edit, add, subtract, cut, paste, and illustrate an otherworldly utopia of metamorphosed flora and fauna. Freed from anthropocentrism, they reclaim agency over their environments. His work explores a reversal of power (not as revenge but as rebalancing) and process is through play, unexpected materials, juxtapositions, and subtle absurdity.
Jacquie Verbal is a cultural archival artist whose work rests at the intersection of cultural critique and Black liberation. Jacquie is the founder and publisher of Blackstack, a grassroots nonprofit for Black writers with a mission to preserve Black stories through archival print publishing. Her practice engages print as both medium and process; she curates enduring records of Black life that resist erasure.
Ji Young Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller based in San Francisco, California. Working in abstract painting, prints and illustrations.
Sabri Tunca (b. 1986, Istanbul) is a felt artist based in San Francisco. He discovered felting by chance in 2008 and developed his practice through self-directed experimentation. Working under the name “Feltthink,” he creates one-of-a-kind sculptural, wearable, and functional textile works. His work transforms wool into expressive, tactile forms, combining color and texture in playful and experimental ways.
Kia Lat (he/they) is a descendent of Muslim javanese ancestors who paved their way to wear Batik, Mad Crazy ancestors who paved their way to reject psychiatric institutions and all cages, and Queer/Trans ancestors who paved their way into radical imaginings of the world. Their ancestors live in him as they migrate and migrate, across continents and, as of recent, neighborhoods in Berkeley. Experiencing multiple involuntary hospitalizations, interrogating asylum and kinship as a Mad Neurodivergent abolitionist becomes central to their investigation. He historically engages with Acrylic paint and block printing and is expanding to multidisciplinary realms.
Téa Sherman is a 3rd generation Black San Franciscan and fine artist. Raised primarily in East Oakland, she seeks to explore themes of familial relation, portal creation, and weaving through her artworks in an attempt to inspire exploration and relation for herself and others. Sherman currently works as a community organiser, curating events for transgender individuals across the Bay Area.