Christine Wong Yap‘s (2025 Awardee) Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives is a decentralized exhibition of 15 sculptural lanterns. Each lantern is based on a paper cut designed in collaboration with one of 15 working class, immigrant, Chinese or Latina woman. The artworks explore intersectional lived experiences of issues such as immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights, the high cost of living, affordable housing, public safety, and mental health, plus how the women confront these structural challenges.

The trilingual exhibition (English, Spanish, and Chinese) includes statements and links to video interviews. Audiences can see and hear all 15 collaborating designers speaking in her native language about the stories behind her papercut, and her reflections on the process.