Photography by JJ Jumoc-Casas
An Inspiring, Radical, and Inovative Artist
Elizabeth Blancas is an interdisciplinary visual artist working across mediums including: muralism, ceramics, illustration, and printmaking. For over a decade, she has utilized art making as a tool for resistance as well as a celebration of the communities she comes from and is in solidarity with. Blancas is a Bay Area based artist whose work is deeply informed by her experiences as a Xicana dyke. Across mediums, she explores themes of culture, justice, spirituality, and sexuality. Blancas' work has been commissioned and exhibited by Google HQ (Sunnyvale), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), Social & Public Art Resource Center (Los Angeles), Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (San Jose), and The Haight Street Art Center (San Francisco). Blancas is a Reimagining Refuge Seed Grant Recipient (2026) and Art + Water Artist in Residence (2027). She holds a B.A. from UCLA in Chicanx Studies and Art History.