Love All: A Survey on Civic Wellness
Curated by Prince Boucher & Glass Rice
Curated by Prince Boucher & Glass Rice
September 6, 2025
In Love All, Mission Athletic Club presents a living portrait of civic wellness through the lens of sport, movement, community, and artistic expression. This exhibition gathers works that echo across tennis courts, city blocks, and inside personal spaces; where line calls, grunts, and laughter form a visual language of shared play and public ritual.
Founded not in a gallery but on public courts, Mission Athletic Club is a San Francisco-based civic community that reimagines sport as a vehicle for health care, mutual care, and public stewardship. With over 2,000 active members and no fixed address, the club operates like a moving organism, assembling daily across public space to serve, rally, rotate, and return. Love All is both a celebration and a document: a record of a community in motion and a call to reconsider who gets to move, where, and together.
The title draws from the opening score of a tennis match, where both players begin in parity. But here, Love All serves as a broader provocation. What if our games didn’t begin at zero, but from love? What if our fields of play doubled as sites of resistance, intimacy, and inclusion?
The exhibition features photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media from a range of contributors: professional artists whose practices explore the aesthetics of sport and movement, Mission Athletic Club members reflecting on the emotional terrain of the court, and works submitted through open call. Some pieces lean into the literal; rackets, nets, sweat, and bounce. While others meditate on rhythm, vulnerability, control, and grace.
At its core, this show was born from a question posed by one of the club’s founders: What would it mean to stop being a consumer of the city and start becoming a steward of the commons? That question has shaped how Mission Athletic Club gathers, plays, and now, how it creates and exhibits. The tennis court becomes a civic stage. A training ground not only for athleticism, but for becoming public with one another. In a time when access to space, attention, and care feels increasingly privatized, Love All insists that shared play is an act of defiance. The joy of return, whether ball or body, is what allows us to keep showing up.
As the exhibition unfolds alongside the rhythms of the club’s programs, its opening, talks, and gatherings become extensions of the gallery itself. A match play of movement and reflection, rigor and softness, competition and collaboration.
Love All asks not just what art can do for sport, but what sport can do for art. And what both can do for the public.
prince boucher
In Love All, Mission Athletic Club presents a living portrait of civic wellness through the lens of sport, movement, community, and artistic expression. This exhibition gathers works that echo across tennis courts, city blocks, and inside personal spaces; where line calls, grunts, and laughter form a visual language of shared play and public ritual.
Founded not in a gallery but on public courts, Mission Athletic Club is a San Francisco-based civic community that reimagines sport as a vehicle for health care, mutual care, and public stewardship. With over 2,000 active members and no fixed address, the club operates like a moving organism, assembling daily across public space to serve, rally, rotate, and return. Love All is both a celebration and a document: a record of a community in motion and a call to reconsider who gets to move, where, and together.
The title draws from the opening score of a tennis match, where both players begin in parity. But here, Love All serves as a broader provocation. What if our games didn’t begin at zero, but from love? What if our fields of play doubled as sites of resistance, intimacy, and inclusion?
The exhibition features photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media from a range of contributors: professional artists whose practices explore the aesthetics of sport and movement, Mission Athletic Club members reflecting on the emotional terrain of the court, and works submitted through open call. Some pieces lean into the literal; rackets, nets, sweat, and bounce. While others meditate on rhythm, vulnerability, control, and grace.
At its core, this show was born from a question posed by one of the club’s founders: What would it mean to stop being a consumer of the city and start becoming a steward of the commons? That question has shaped how Mission Athletic Club gathers, plays, and now, how it creates and exhibits. The tennis court becomes a civic stage. A training ground not only for athleticism, but for becoming public with one another. In a time when access to space, attention, and care feels increasingly privatized, Love All insists that shared play is an act of defiance. The joy of return, whether ball or body, is what allows us to keep showing up.
As the exhibition unfolds alongside the rhythms of the club’s programs, its opening, talks, and gatherings become extensions of the gallery itself. A match play of movement and reflection, rigor and softness, competition and collaboration.
Love All asks not just what art can do for sport, but what sport can do for art. And what both can do for the public.
prince boucher
In Love All, Mission Athletic Club presents a living portrait of civic wellness through the lens of sport, movement, community, and artistic expression. This exhibition gathers works that echo across tennis courts, city blocks, and inside personal spaces; where line calls, grunts, and laughter form a visual language of shared play and public ritual.
Founded not in a gallery but on public courts, Mission Athletic Club is a San Francisco-based civic community that reimagines sport as a vehicle for health care, mutual care, and public stewardship. With over 2,000 active members and no fixed address, the club operates like a moving organism, assembling daily across public space to serve, rally, rotate, and return. Love All is both a celebration and a document: a record of a community in motion and a call to reconsider who gets to move, where, and together.
The title draws from the opening score of a tennis match, where both players begin in parity. But here, Love All serves as a broader provocation. What if our games didn’t begin at zero, but from love? What if our fields of play doubled as sites of resistance, intimacy, and inclusion?
The exhibition features photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media from a range of contributors: professional artists whose practices explore the aesthetics of sport and movement, Mission Athletic Club members reflecting on the emotional terrain of the court, and works submitted through open call. Some pieces lean into the literal; rackets, nets, sweat, and bounce. While others meditate on rhythm, vulnerability, control, and grace.
At its core, this show was born from a question posed by one of the club’s founders: What would it mean to stop being a consumer of the city and start becoming a steward of the commons? That question has shaped how Mission Athletic Club gathers, plays, and now, how it creates and exhibits. The tennis court becomes a civic stage. A training ground not only for athleticism, but for becoming public with one another. In a time when access to space, attention, and care feels increasingly privatized, Love All insists that shared play is an act of defiance. The joy of return, whether ball or body, is what allows us to keep showing up.
As the exhibition unfolds alongside the rhythms of the club’s programs, its opening, talks, and gatherings become extensions of the gallery itself. A match play of movement and reflection, rigor and softness, competition and collaboration.
Love All asks not just what art can do for sport, but what sport can do for art. And what both can do for the public.
prince boucher
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We are inclusive and intentional about welcoming those who want to actively engage with their local community. We are each stewards of the TMAC experience and our communities at large (vs. people who just need a tennis partner). The short application form can be found above or below.
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That's okay! Be ready to have fun and learn. We have programs for beginners to advanced players!
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While our club hosts official games and events about 3x a week, members frequently connect for casual one-on-one or doubles matches—because the love for the game knows no schedule.
Does it cost any money to join?
TMAC was born from a shared love of tennis and community, not profit. While membership remains free, we thrive through the contribution of members' time, equipment, tennis ball donations, and a fee that covers costs for clinics and tournaments —keeping the community spirit alive both on and off the court.
How does the application work?
We are inclusive and intentional about welcoming those who want to actively engage with their local community. We are each stewards of the TMAC experience and our communities at large (vs. people who just need a tennis partner). The short application form can be found above or below.
What if I'm a beginner?
That's okay! Be ready to have fun and learn. We have programs for beginners to advanced players!
How often do you play?
While our club hosts official games and events about 3x a week, members frequently connect for casual one-on-one or doubles matches—because the love for the game knows no schedule.
Does it cost any money to join?
TMAC was born from a shared love of tennis and community, not profit. While membership remains free, we thrive through the contribution of members' time, equipment, tennis ball donations, and a fee that covers costs for clinics and tournaments —keeping the community spirit alive both on and off the court.
How does the application work?
We are inclusive and intentional about welcoming those who want to actively engage with their local community. We are each stewards of the TMAC experience and our communities at large (vs. people who just need a tennis partner). The short application form can be found above or below.
What if I'm a beginner?
That's okay! Be ready to have fun and learn. We have programs for beginners to advanced players!
How often do you play?
While our club hosts official games and events about 3x a week, members frequently connect for casual one-on-one or doubles matches—because the love for the game knows no schedule.
Does it cost any money to join?
TMAC was born from a shared love of tennis and community, not profit. While membership remains free, we thrive through the contribution of members' time, equipment, tennis ball donations, and a fee that covers costs for clinics and tournaments —keeping the community spirit alive both on and off the court.
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