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Episode #123 - Kija Lucas - "Enchanted Garden"
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Featured Artist: Kija Lucas.
Full podcast at https://bit.ly/kijalucas24
Kija Lucas’ “The Enchanted Garden” installation is featured in “GROW!” an exhibition opening on September 21 at Palo Alto Art Center.
Artist Kija Lucas’ work explores ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. In this podcast, she discusses “The Enchanted Garden,” a Palo Alto Art Center installation.
Her Palo Alto Art Center installation is named after her father’s gardening business. It features a 20x13 ft mural with layers of trees and botanicals, an alcove featuring lemons in various stages of ripeness and ornately framed rusty tools, and a wallpaper-wrapped gallery that represents Lawrence Lane, her childhood Palo Alto cul-de-sac, which was also part of a historically racially integrated neighborhood.
Lucas explores themes of identity, belonging, and human’s propensity toward categorization through non-human imagery, highlighting the impact of colonialism and migration. She aims to draw viewers in with visuals that can lead to deeper conversations about nature and society.
Also, save the date for a conversation featuring Kija that spans the panelists’ research interests and personal ties to plants and designed, racially integrated neighborhoods in Palo Alto and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area hosted by KQED’s Alexis Madrigal.
This group exhibition, guest curated by Marianne K. McGrath (Last featured on episode 48 of the Content Magazine podcast), explores the gardens from our memories and the green spaces we share to the gardens that grow us towards a better future. The exhibition features works from twenty-one artists in diverse mediums to consider history and memory, sustainability, labor equity, and climate change, as well as our unique connections with the natural world, well-being, and pleasure.
Opening: GROW, Friday Night, September 20, 6p - 8p
Panel Discussion: Sunday, November 10, 2p -3:30p
Workshop: Sunday, December 8. 2p -3:30p
Full interview and audio at https://bit.ly/kijalucas24
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