Creating for Movements, Healing, and Resistance

Julia LaChica is a multidisciplinary visual artist and storyteller based in Oakland, California. As a Japanese-Filipino American, her work intertwines personal and collective histories, exploring themes of identity, resilience, and cultural memory. In 2025, she participated in 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 exhibition featured over 50 artists and examined caregiving as an act of resistance, resilience, and radical love through the lens of AAPI cultural heritage, history, and socio-political landscapes. Julia's installation, A Promise Unspoken, was showcased as part of this powerful exploration of caregiving by AAPI women-identified artists.