Liza Macawili

Liza Macawili is an AAPI multi-media, autodidactic artist based in Southern California. Her art is heavily influenced by her Filipino heritage, her shamanic ancestry, and growing up on the West Side of Long Beach in a Black, Latino & Polynesian neighborhood. During the pandemic, she used art as therapy to ease her anxiety and depression. At this time her worked focused on family, friends and people in the community. Liza’s work has since been exhibited in The Long Beach Airport, The New Americans Museum, The Southgate Museum, in an installation for The Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture DTLA, In the Atrium Gallery of Ventura County’s Administration Building and in Howard University’s Literary Journal, “The Amistad.” Internationally she’s been featured on GMA Pinoy TV’s Pockets of Hope. She is excited to be a Laker’s In The Paint Grantee for the 2023 season. 

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Liza Macawili
(562) 243-8878
lizamacawili@yahoo.com

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Artist Work

Artist Power part of The Collective Memory Installation Grand Park, DTLA 2023 (2021)
Pastel Chalk Pencil on Strathmore Paper. 9x12. Muse Ananeic.

I CAN'T. Published in Howard University's Literary Journal "The Amistad" Spring 2021 (2020)
Pastel Chalk Pencil on Strathmore Paper 9x12. Series was created in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

Pockets of Hope (2021)
Feature on GMA Pinoy TV

Pockets of Hope: Liza Macawili of Long Beach, California

To cope with the challenges of the pandemic, artist Liza Macawili uses her talent in art to ease her anxiety. Her amazing masterpieces was even featured in an exhibit in Long Beach Airport in California! Watch her #PocketsOfHope story in this video.