What They Left Us (2025)

“What They Left Us” brings together eight Filipino-American artists whose practices center memory as the material and method. Curated by Baltimore-based artists Anna Divinagracia and Ciarra K. Walters, What They Left Us features new and recent work by Thea Canlas, Miguel Caba, Ashley Dequilla, Ryan Frigillana, Dhaynne Torres, Kat Navarro, along with the curators themselves.

Through painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance, this exhibition explores how cultural inheritance and the unspoken labor of belonging are shaped by migration. The art that emerges is not simply homage to the past, but is something that is in a living conversation with it. Engaging with inherited rituals, family archives, and everyday gestures of care, the featured artists consider how art becomes a means of holding onto and reshaping what is passed down. In doing so, they examine the complex nature of identity, community, and presence as Filipino-Americans today.

The exhibition runs from July 3rd to August 2, 2025 at The Alchemy of Art.

This exhibtions is made possible with support from Maryland State Arts Council, Towson University’s Asian Arts & Culture Center and Off the Rox.