The Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco Presents Wayfinders: the Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial
SAN FRANCISCO (March 2, 2026) – The Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco (USF) presents Wayfinders: the Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial, from March 3 through April 12, 2026. An opening celebration with artist introductions will take place on Thursday, March 5, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Wayfinders brings together recent artworks from 23 architecture, design, and fine arts faculty members at the University of San Francisco, revealing the role their artistic and teaching practices have in investigating, critiquing, and reimagining our world. Artworks range from an architectural model of the Senior Day Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown, to a series of concrete sculptures depicting wave patterns, from photography featuring storefronts in Mexico City to a hummingbird feeder created from plastics. Artists include: Noopur Agarwal, Renata Ancona, Brian Bartz, Liat Berdugo, Andrea Cernusak, Sergio De La Torre, Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Sofia V Gonzalez, Eric Hongisto, Imogen Isaac, Yim Gloria Jew, Sandra Kelch, Kathryn Kenworth, Rivka Valérie Louissaint, Stuart McKee, Sean Olson, Matthew Peek, Tanu Sankalia, Mimi Sheiner, Nico van Dongen, Seth Wachtel, Jenifer K Wofford, Susan Wolsborn. The various works in Wayfinders explore the paths, detours, important guides, and searches for meaning.
Liat Berdugo’s three projects exemplify the exhibition’s breadth in tone, material, and subject matter, demonstrating the essential role of art as a wayfinder in an everchanging world. The installation, Motherhood Art Assignment, makes a game of the artmaking processes that have been interrupted by parenthood while Seeing it for the Trees and Tsipori over Safuriyya presented on printed fabric examine landscape, environment, and documentation in settler-colonial occupation, particularly in Palestine and Israel. Berdugo writes, “Central to my practice is the idea that art can employ common forms of technology to interrogate and dismantle oppressive structures.”
About USF’s Department of Art + Architecture
With accomplished faculty, small studio classes, and an innovative focus on social justice and community engagement, the Department of Art + Architecture holds unique appeal among educational institutions in the Bay Area. Committed to the education of students as whole people, the faculty aims to prepare them for a complex world in which their artistic skills are needed more than ever. The Department is also part of the Ann Getty Institute of Art and Design.
About Thacher Gallery
The Thacher Gallery is a public art gallery in the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library where creativity, scholarship, and community converge. The gallery is free and open to the public daily from 12:00-6:00 p.m., whenever the library is open. Located at 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco.
About University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco is a private, Jesuit Catholic university that reflects the diversity, optimism, and opportunities of the city that surrounds it. USF offers more than 230 undergraduate, graduate, professional, and certificate programs in the arts and sciences, business, law, education, and nursing and health professions. At USF, each course is an intimate learning community in which top professors encourage students to turn learning into positive action, so the students graduate equipped to do well in the world — and inspired to change it for the better. For more information, visit usfca.edu.
