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.