NOTE: 465 Collective is a NON-COMMERCIAL effort. It is NOT a non-profit. Contributions ARE NOT tax-deductible.
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ABOUT 465
465 Collective is a queer, trans, non-binary, kinky, and sex worker community lounge and gallery located in the former home of Femina Potens, a landmark gallery dedicated to showcasing work by women and trans artists operated by Madison Young from 2002 to 2007.
It opened as 465 Collective in June 2024 at 465 S. Van Ness, San Francisco / Yelamu, CA.
Current members are Beth Stephens, Devon Devine, Jason Wyman, Lydia Daniller, Maria Judice, Madison Young, and Tray Smith.
WHO WE SERVE
465 Collective centers the work of queer, trans, non-binary, kinky, & sex worker artists, filmmakers, & cultural producers with ties to the San Francisco Bay Area. All programs are produced or hosted by a Collective Member or Members and range from exhibitions, artist-in-residences, film screenings, workshops, organizing meetings, political education and civic engagement, performance activations, reading series, and more.
465 Collective serves a diverse & varied community of communities, including (but not limited to) born-and-raised San Franciscans, people who recently arrived here, neighbors who live nearby, visitors from beyond the Bay, curious people looking for curious people, those who quite often don’t feel like they belong, &
friends who desire comrades in the fight for liberation.
HOW WE OPERATE
465 Collective is collectively managed using a cohort-based model made up of queer artists, filmmakers, and cultural producers. Together, they work to ensure the continued viability of the physical space, activate the lounge and gallery through free to low-cost community-run programming and exhibitions, and come to consensus on best practices for collective management, presenting art that pushes boundaries, and trans, queer, sex worker, and kinky community engagement at the intersections of race, disability, class, gender, and immigration.
465 Collective Members
BETH STEPHENS / EARTH LAB SF
is a filmmaker and artist with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies. Born in West Virginia, Stephens moved to California, when she joined the Art Department at UCSC in 1994. She is primarily based in San Francisco but escapes to Boulder Creek, CA whenever she can. Stephens is the executive director of the nonprofit E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF.
Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) for the film project with Annie Sprinkle, Playing with Fire: an Ecosexual Emergency, four Individual Artist Grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Fleishhacker Foundation grant (2022), and the book, “Assuming the Ecosexual Position— the Earth as Lover,” published by the University of Minnesota Press. (2021) That same year, the Library of Congress Subject Heading created an “authority record” for “ecosexuality.”
Stephens’ work has been featured in ArtForum, Hyperallergic, the Sierra Club Magazine, eco/art/scot/land, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, and in books such as WANWU I, by Zheng Bo, and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library acquired Stephens’ archives in 2022. She teaches, lectures, exhibits art, screens films, and performs nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions such as documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany, and Athens, Greece, Manifesta 14 in Kosovo, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Performance Space, New York.
More info at: www.earthlabsf.org.
JASON WYMAN / QUEERLY COMPLEX
I was born upon the Land of 10,000 Lakes, also called mní sóta home of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. I now live, create, and love upon Yelamu, lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, renamed by colonizers Yerba Buena, then San Francisco. My name means, “Healer,” or so I've been told. What it means to me is, “Someone eternally and perpetually finding their way.”
I am also Queerly Complex, and Queerly Complex is the art of relating to one’s self, each other, and the Cosmic Mysteries through contemplation, curiosity, conversation, and co-creation. This results in: art, performance, poetry, & media; gatherings, happenings, exchanges, workshops, & events; collaborations, collectives, commons, and co-productions. I co-create across differences rooted in gender, racial, disability, and economic justice.
I am also one half of Tree of Change and Culture Tending Commons with Crystal Mason. At Tree of Change, we provide executive coaching and facilitation services for those seeking practices that are necessary after abolition. For Culture Tending Commons, we write about and share our reflections, insights, and perspectives on the world we are co-creating.
And I am a Founding Collective Member of 465 Collective, a Steering Committee member of the SF People’s Budget Coalition, and a Founding Board Member of People Power Media.
More info at:
www.queerlycomplex.com www.treeofchange.net www.culturetending.com
LYDIA DANILLER
is a portrait and editorial photographer based in San Francisco. Her work conveys the warmth, intimacy, and mischief of the artists and queer communities she documents. She has photographed Peaches, Michelle Tea, Annie Sprinkle + Beth Stephens, Sean Dorsey, Madison Young, and many others. Daniller’s work has appeared in the New York Times, KQED, NPR, A Passion Thing, i-D, InDance Magazine, TimeOut New York, Forbes, The Cut, SFWeekly, SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, and SFGATE. She’s currently in post-production on her first film entitled Ask Adele.
More info at: www.danillerphotography.com
MADISON YOUNG / ALCHEMY FILM FOUNDATION
(they/she) is an award winning filmmaker, curator, author, community activist and performance artist. They were a member of a group of artists who founded Femina Potens in 2000 to support emerging LGBTQ artists in the bay area. Young was one of the pioneers of the feminist porn movement of the early aughts and their work is included in university course study on the topics feminist and gender studies at universities around the world. Young is the author of three books including Daddy: The Memoir and the writer/director/producer/host of the LGBTQ travel documentary television series - Submission Possible on Revry TV.
Their off-Broadway solo theater performance - Reveal All Fear Nothing - was developed with collaborator Annie Sprinkle and toured the United States from 2016 - 2019. Young is the writer/director/producer of the award winning feature film, By the Roots, based on Young’s memoir. They are currently in development for a sequel to By the Roots and a queer sci-fi time travelling film. Young serves as head of production at Empress in Lavender Media which is dedicated to bringing queer, trans and sex worker narratives to television and feature film and the Artistic Director of Alchemy Film Foundation. Alchemy Film Foundation provides support to queer filmmakers through grants, mentorship, education and production resources.
More info at: www.alchemyfilmfoundation.org
MARIA JUDICE / BLACKMARIA MICROCINEMA
M is an artist, cultural organizer, and visual storyteller in cinema with an MFA from CalArts. Wired magazine called M a "filmmaker provocateur." PALM TREES DOWN 3RD ST. won the Adrienne Shelly Award, and it was called "a masterpiece" by Film Threat. Obsidian Theater Festival produced and staged A METAPHOR IN 3 ACTS in 2020. ELEPHANT received the Departure Audience Award at Indie Memphis in 2022.
Directorial work includes short films PALM TREES DOWN 3RD ST. (2008), GERANIUMS (2009), MOONLESS (2012), SPACED (2014), and the feature film ELEPHANT (2022), which premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
In 2021, M produced NEPTUNE FROST (Cannes 2021), directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman. She launches the Black Maria Microcinema in the Fall of 2024. The microcinema is a dedicated screening and educational space for radical works.
Indigo Impact was founded in 2016 to produce impactful left-of-center documentaries, fiction narratives, art projects, and community campaigns. As a total cultural worker and hood educator, she sits on the board of School of the Alternative, offering affordable non-hierarchical arts education. Classes on cinema studies are taught in open virtual and public spaces to advance discussions on the future of Black cinema. Curricula include SCREENWRITING ROOTED IN DECOLONIZATION AND ABSTRACT THINKING, THE PRINCIPLES of GOOD STORY, BLACK FILM as PROTEST, and the 101 ESSENTIAL BLACK FILMS.
M can be found on unceded Ramaytush land of the Yelamu people, named San Francisco by settlers, kicking around the fog.
More info at: www.patreon.com/cw/BlackMariaMicroCinema
DEVON DEVINE / ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
(he/him) is a queer Indorican artist and cultural innovator who has called San Francisco's sunny Mission District home for over 20 years. As the co-founder and co-producer of the acclaimed dance party Hard French, Devon has made a significant impact on the city's nightlife scene. He also served as the Director of Events at SOMArts for eight years.
Devon's former residence, the iconic flat 3060, has been a nurturing ground for activists, artists, sex workers, and event producers, continuing to support and inspire community. His artistic journey began in Olympia, WA, where in 2003 he co-produced and co-directed the short film Malaqueerche, which garnered attention at Slamdance, Frameline, and MixNYC. His video experience, JUNK: Not Yr Momma's Film Festival, was showcased at the 2007 Queer Jubilee 4 Festival in Rome, highlighting underground digital media artists. He also co created 3 episodes of BrownDownCrownTV with artist Jenna Riot.
Through his own video art, zines, and polaroid photography, Devon explores the intersections of race, pop culture, and queer cultural documentation. In 2021, he received the Nomadic Press/San Francisco Foundation literary award for his short story about his life as a brown punk in San Francisco.
In 2023, Devon contributed to the historic debut of the queer and trans stage, Dolores’, at the Outside Lands music festival. In early 2026 he was the recipient of a grant and Transom workshop to create a short podcast showcasing a resident of Bombay Beach, CA.
to bring queer joy and magic to the dance floor and beyond.
More info at: www.instagram.com/devoncito
TRAY SMITH / REALEST EXPOSURE
Trayvon “Tray” Smith is a San Francisco based creative producer, curator, photographer, and cultural strategist whose work centers authentic storytelling, community care, and the visibility of Black and LGBTQIA+ communities.
As the founder of Realest Exposure, Tray creates experiences, events, exhibitions, portraits, and multimedia campaigns that help artists and community organizations communicate their stories with clarity and intention. His practice moves between creative direction, event production, photography, and narrative strategy, blending artistic expression with the systems and structures needed to sustain meaningful work.
Tray is especially interested in documenting people as they are: complex, evolving, and worthy of being seen beyond stereotypes. Through intimate portraiture and community-centered programming, he creates spaces where people can feel affirmed, represented, and connected.
His work has included collaborations with artists, wellness practitioners, cultural institutions, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations throughout the Bay Area. Across every project, Tray approaches creativity as both an artistic tool and a form of relationship-building; one that can preserve stories, strengthen communities, and open new possibilities for how people see themselves and one another.
More info at: www.realestexposure.com
FALL @ 465
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OCTOBER 2026
GINGER YIFAN CHAN
OPENING FRI October 2 ▼ 7-9pm
Photography Exhibition & Book Release
NOVEMBER 2026
DECEMBER 2026
NO PUBLIC EVENTS SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME.
465 Collective slows down in December to accommodate transitions, endings, reflections, the passage of seasons.
PAST EVENTS
SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN JUNE 2024, WE HAVE COLLECTIVELY HOSTED 150+ FREE / LOW-COST EVENTS ensuring our community of queer, trans, kinky, and sex worker artists and neighbors have an accessible, affordable community gathering and exhibition space.
PAST EVENTS & GATHERINGS INCLUDE: Black Film as Protest, Screening of Playing with Fire, Golden Hour Mixer, Healing Through Self Expression, Trans March Meetings, Magnifera, Dis*Pose, Gay Shame New Friends Meet Up, Production of By The Roots,Queer Artists Survival Salons, Bleed Like Me, Nothing New, Rooted in Decolonization & Abstract Thinking, Films-in-Progress Screenings, Isis Faith, Artist-in-Residence with Midori, Evil Shit, Thursdays Are for Queers & Comrades, Dyke March meetings, Quartz Art Market for Palestine, & more!
