Creating for Movements, Healing, and Resistance

Julia LaChica is a multidisciplinary visual artist and storyteller based in Oakland, California. Her work draws from her Japanese-Filipino American heritage, moving between personal memory and the broader histories communities carry — and often struggle to hold onto.

In 2025, she was part of Brown Palms, Yellow Balms: Reinventing Caregivers of Color, an exhibition co-presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. Curated by O.M. France Viana, the show brought together over 50 artists to look at caregiving not as quiet sacrifice, but as something more defiant — an act of resistance and radical love rooted in AAPI history and experience.

Julia's installation, A Promise Unspoken, was part of that conversation.