Mission Grafica: The Public's Voice Opening Party

Join KALW and MCCLA for an opening celebration of Mission Grafica: The Public’s Voice, a poster art exhibition documenting nearly fifty years of Bay Area creative resistance.

Since 1977, the Mission Grafica print studio and archive has empowered public art in the Bay Area. This exhibition traces the evolution of Bay Area social justice movements through posters made by La Raza Graphics and the Mission Grafica print studio. These works advocate for civil rights, tenant protections, police accountability, and cultural resilience while also expressing a bold, joyful creative spirit. Mission Grafica: The Public’s Voice offers a living timeline of how artists have aligned beauty with justice in the face of power and change.

The exhibition is on view until January 30, 2026 at KALW’s Live Event Studio, 220 Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco.

Featuring Special Guests:

Dr. Martina Ayala is the Executive Director at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.

She is a visionary leader, founder and pioneer of innovative programs and schools, consultant, and management executive of 35 years, working for different institutions of higher education, and social service nonprofits serving inter-generational multicultural communities. Her life’s work has focused on Chicano film, spirituality, literacy through the arts, and issues related to education, inclusion, social justice, immigrants, people of color, family strengthening, resilience and trauma informed care.

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Sunni M. Khalid, KALW's news editor, is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism. During his career, Sunni has reported from more than 35 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean on a number of breaking international stories. These include Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the U.S. military intervention in Haiti, Israel’s Operation Grapes of Wrath in Lebanon and South Africa’s historic, first all-race elections in 1994. Mr. Khalid was born in Detroit and raised in Highland Park, Michigan.

The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) makes the arts accessible as an essential element to the community's development and well-being.

The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people, and to make arts accessible as an essential element to community development and well-being.

MCCLA is a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts organization committed to the collaborative artistic vision of Latino art forms. MCCLA provides the community with an arena in which to develop new artistic skills, as well as support local and established artists that serve their community. MCCLA collaborates with other arts, social and humanitarian groups to provide the widest range of programming possible.

There is a $10 - $20 sliding scale suggested donation for this event. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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📍 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI

🚪 Reception doors open at 6:00

🗣️ Program begins at 7:00

🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want

Please note:

• The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street
• We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north
• Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue
• If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location; free street parking is available across from the venue at 7:00 pm

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