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Bay Windows Project-Culminating Scavenger Hunt

Project Premiere

Saturday, January 24, 2026, 11am - 2pm PST

Various locations in Chinatown and the Mission District, San Francisco, CA; beginning at Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco’s Design Store OR Galería de la Raza’s Studio 24

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Christine Wong Yap and contributors, “Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花” (lanterns featuring designs in collaboration with Yurisma Gonzalez and DanLi Xu 許丹麗), 2025–ongoing, social practice, mixed media; dimensions variable. On view at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco’s Design Store as part of “Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives” through March 11, 2026. Photo: Rich Lomibao.

Led by Christine Wong Yap, Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花 is a visual art and social practice project. Beginning last spring with a series of trilingual workshops, the project aims to foster belonging and build cross-cultural bridges among a cohort of 15 working-class, immigrant, Chinese & Latinx women through the art of papercuts. Christine adapted 15 papercuts, which each represent a social or political issue impacting one collaborating designer, into lanterns of steel, wood, and fabric.

Join Christine and the cohort in a project-culminating scavenger hunt to find these 15 lanterns in 5 locations in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Mission District. Interact with the makers, gather trivia, and collect stamps for the chance to win prizes. Fun, free, and family-friendly!

Please RSVP; encouraged but not required.

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Christine Wong Yap and contributors, “Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花” (lanterns featuring designs in collaboration with Lidia “Lupita” Iraheta, Selina Luo 羅玉蓮, and Cammi Xingyu Huang 黃幸瑜), 2025–ongoing, social practice, mixed media; dimensions variable. On view at Acción Latina as part of “Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives” through March 11, 2026. Photo: Rich Lomibao.
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Collaborators use craft blades to cut their papercuts by hand. Designed  in collaboration with Christine Wong Yap, their papel-picado-inspired imagery responds to social issues that impact them. Photo: Lee Oscar Gomez.

Christine Wong Yap

Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花

Photo by Mike Boo. Christine Wong Yap is a visual artist and social practitioner exploring belonging, resilience, and mental well being through lettering, printmaking, publishing, textiles, and public art.

Photo by Mike Boo.