Every Step Is Moving Me Up

Walker Hewitt MFA thesis exhibition

Reception: April 17, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
April 17 - May 1, 2026
SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

In Every Step Is Moving Me Up, Hewitt is exploring themes of walking, queer gathering, commitment, and what it means to be a neighbor. This body of work contends with the politics of being in community and sharing space, resources, and time. Through painted, ceramic and installative works, Hewitt reflects on how we construct and delineate space, how we articulate boundaries, and what it means to make a barrier more permeable. Hewitt identifies the sidewalk as a site of togetherness and discovery. A site where, and an instance how we can learn and practice mutual recognition, engage with the vicinal, and foster, maintain and steward community. Hewitt is curious about strategies to make the opaque, the impeding, and the impenetrable, into the porous, the traversable, and the translucent as a way of approaching a more horizontal and just future.