Kija Lucas's guest appearances

Kija Lucas

Art Practical Audio

The Process Podcast - interviews exploring survival as a creative

Ashley Smith

Paul Jarvis

Chris Shaw

Hank WIllis Thomas

Emory Douglas

Tina Essmaker

Trevor Peterson

Andrew Wilson

John Lindsey

Doug Walker

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Maria Gaspar

Michelle Wong

Meg Lewis

Rhiannon Evans

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Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area using photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She’s interested in how ideas are passed down and how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francico Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, and Root Division, as well as Venice Arts in Los Angeles, CA, La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico. Kija has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and The Wassaic Artist Residency. She’s a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College. Kija is also the program manager at The Growlery, an SF-based artist residency where I had the pleasure of meeting, living, and becoming friends with her. In this conversation, Kija and I talk about her current bodies of work, her creative process in photography and scans, her unique journey to identifying as an artist, how what we’re taught about history is bullshit, knowing when to end a project, and more. Read more in the show notes.

Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area using photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She’s interested in how ideas are passed down and how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francico Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, and Root Division, as well as Venice Arts in Los Angeles, CA, La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico. Kija has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and The Wassaic Artist Residency. She’s a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College. Kija is also the program manager at The Growlery, an SF-based artist residency where I had the pleasure of meeting, living, and becoming friends with her. In this conversation, Kija and I talk about her current bodies of work, her creative process in photography and scans, her unique journey to identifying as an artist, how what we’re taught about history is bullshit, knowing when to end a project, and more. <a href="http://theprocess.co/kija-lucas-interview/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Read more in the show notes</a>.

72: Kija Lucas on using art to challenge what we think to be true

Mik Gaspay

For our live event series, we invited artists to speak to a specific location or site that holds significance to their practice or experience living in the Bay Area. Join Mik Gaspay and Kija Lucas in an intimate conversation about their experiences growing up in Palo Alto, and the paths that led them to becoming Bay Area-based artists. Learn how they continue to survive and thrive in the ever-changing ecosystem of the Bay.Gaspay's work can be seen at a permanent public art installation in Chinatown, San Francisco's Portsmouth Square bridge, he's a graduate of California College of the Arts. Lucas uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area and nationally.

For our live event series, we invited artists to speak to a specific location or site that holds significance to their practice or experience living in the Bay Area. Join Mik Gaspay and Kija Lucas in an intimate conversation about their experiences growing up in Palo Alto, and the paths that led them to becoming Bay Area-based artists. Learn how they continue to survive and thrive in the ever-changing ecosystem of the Bay. Gaspay's work can be seen at a permanent public art installation in Chinatown, San Francisco's Portsmouth Square bridge, he's a graduate of California College of the Arts. Lucas uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area and nationally.

Live Series | Living & Working: Mik Gaspay and Kija Lucas