For 2025, SoCAC is supporting artist Samantha Yang’s Residency Exhibition co-curated by Marianna Davison, Ph.D., and James Nisbet, Ph.D. Following the catastrophic Los Angeles Fires of January 2025 the exhibit will integrate photos alongside a newly commissioned series of drawings, collages, and collaborative photographic installations tracking the recovery of native plants at the 2025 Eaton Canyon burn scar. In this exhibition, working with Tongva, a biologist and ethnobotanist, the exhibition will feature botanical illustrations of native and invasive plants in Eaton Canyon. The location will be OC & SEAA Gallery, University of California, Irvine.