K-12 / Special Event
Family Day
October 4, 2025, 11:00am–5:00pm
11am–5pm:
Bring your chosen family for a professional photo inspired by stay, take your time, my love! Play, pose, and celebrate one another in a special installation pulling from the plush domestic interiors of David Antonio Cruz’s paintings. In his solo exhibition here at ICA SF, Cruz celebrates the power of queer chosen family and embraces posing as an act of resistance. Join Cruz and Bay Area photographer Randy Lucina to have fun, make memories, and build a lasting archive of your loved ones.
All are welcome. Sign up HERE for a fifteen-minute time slot. Participants will receive digital copies of their group photo via email after the event.
Please note that we recommend keeping group sizes to ten or under.
Chosen Family Photos are generously supported by Heidy Braverman and David Skinner, with additional support from De Sousa Hughes and Shaw Contract.
12–4pm:
Get creative with more hands-on art activities throughout the museum!
Make your own pin-back buttons with designs from the GLBT Historical Society Archives centered on queer culture, activism, and pride
Inspired by Tau Lewis’ sculpture Opus (The Ovule), learn to craft found-fabric flowers with Double Union and contribute to a community flower garland. All ages, no sewing skills required
Design your own “felt friends” as imaginary characters in Masako Miki: Midnight March
“I’m a photographer based in Sacramento and I’m mainly focused on documenting and celebrating Black and Brown queer and alternative spaces. My work showcases the vibrant and often overlooked subcultures I’m part of in Northern California, with the goal of amplifying the communities that have shaped me for many years.
I explore the wide spectrum of queer culture by photographing the people who take space in these scenes. I photograph sometimes within the spaces themselves but for the most part my goal is to build deeper and genuine relationships that allow for more intentional work outside of them. Through photography, I aim to create images that do more than just look good. I want my work to feel alive, hold emotion, and to reflect the beauty and diversity of my community with honesty and love.” — Randy Lucina
@vandecent // vandecent.com
David Antonio Cruz (b. 1974, Philadelphia, PA) explores the intersectionality of queerness and race through painting, sculpture, and performance. Cruz received his BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, NY, and his MFA from Yale University, CT. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions besides ICA SF include Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (2023); Galleria Poggiali, Florence, IT (2023); and moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2024, 2021, 2019). Group exhibitions include the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA (2023); DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for the New England Triennial, Lincoln, MA (2022); The Block Museum at Northwestern, Evanston, IL (2022); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2022); Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2022); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Ford Foundation, New York, NY (2019); McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX (2019); and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2019). Cruz is a 2024 Outwin Boochever National Portrait Competition prize winner. His work is in the collections of the private and public institutions around the world.
Cruz lives and works in New York City and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
@glbt_history // glbthistory.org
Double Union is a hacker/maker space and community workshop in San Francisco. Double Union members work to create a culture where we don’t just make awesome stuff—we also ask questions, feel confused sometimes, and break things.
@doubleunionsf // doubleunion.org
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