
From its inception, FCWL has embodied Chinatown’s long-standing legacy of supporting small businesses by utilizing art and culture to amplify family stories and histories, bringing urgency to their survival while galvanizing greater community support.


For this year’s edition of From Chinatown, With Love, we transformed the exhibition into a conceptual “FCWL Shop,” inspired by the idea of a 選物店-a curated store. Using yellow as our defining color, we developed a retail-informed typographic system across print and digital platforms, spotlighting Chinatown’s small businesses as selected cultural treasures.

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Exhibition: Storefronts as Sites of Cultural Resistance

Neighborhood culture is born from relationships within community and by collective survival strategies built across generations. Together, we ask: how do storefronts serve as sites of belonging, storytelling, and cultural production? How can everyday acts of care and mutual aid become forms of cultural resistance and regeneration for a neighborhood? This year, we are excited to include works from the Letterform Archive, Cynthia Yuan Cheng & Sophie Wang, Mischelle Moy, and Singha Hon as part of this exhibition, expanding on our themes of interdependence and community support from Chinatown New York to Chinatown San Francisco.


