THACHER GALLERY

Events & Exhibition Calendar

The Thacher Gallery presents free public programs, including artist talks, craft demonstrations, and docent-led tours for all ages. The facility also serves as a professional training laboratory for students interested in arts management, museum studies, and exhibitions. The gallery often collaborates with faculty and classes for linked programming.

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The Thacher Gallery is open to the public from 12-6 p.m. daily, except during library closures. Please confirm the library schedule prior to visiting, especially during holidays.

All visitors are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations, please call (415) 422-5178 or email simmons@usfca.edu.

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2026-2027 Season Calendar

exploring what defines US

Market/Value

Installations by Reniel del Rosario, Kathryn Kenworth, Kevin Lopez Pardillo, Madi Reyes, and Jeffrey Sincich

August 19-November 10, 2026.

These interdisciplinary artists turn the gallery into a marketplace with a series of storefronts exploring identity and nostalgia, empire and desire, ecology and place to reveal the ways that consumerism shapes our daily lives.

art piece of different canned foods made by hand

Image credit: Reniel Del Rosario, from American Imports, 2020, ceramic and mixed media installation

What We Carry

Al-An deSouza, Angela Hennessy, Stephanie Syjuco, Rupy C. Tut, and Maryam Yousif

December 3, 2026-February 14, 2027.

Five Bay Area artists explore questions of inheritance or what we carry from those who came before us—in our bodies, in our materials, and in our shared record—and what we make of what we choose to keep. Presented by the MA in Museum Studies program in collaboration with guest curator and instructor Deena Chalabi.

Image credit: Stephanie Syjuco, still from Block Out the Sun, 2021, Single-channel video with sound

Each Word Draws a Line

in collaboration with Sergio De La Torre

March 1-April 18, 2027

Each Word Draws a Line brings together photographs, text-based works, videos, and sculptures, tracing fifteen years of collaborations between De La Torre and artists, activists, and communities to reimagine the spaces we inhabit. Presented in conjunction with the Further Triennial.

Image credit: Sergio De La Torre, Proyecto Grillete, 2023, bronze

28th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual

May 7-June 27, 2027.

Organized by undergraduates in the Art History and Museum Studies program, this annual juried exhibition features architecture, design, and fine art by juniors and seniors from USF’s Department of Art + Architecture.