Creator. Artworker. Catalyst.

Charissa Lucille is a multimedia artist who earned their BFA in Journalism and Mass Communications from Arizona State University in 2014. They are currently quilting, self publishing, and running Wasted Ink Zine Distro. Lucille uses the mediums of textiles, photography, and zines, to explore their identity and activism as it relates to disability, neurodiversity, and queerness. Their artwork has been exhibited locally at Phoenix Art Museum, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Vision Gallery, and Northlight Gallery, and has been published in Love Quilting Magazine, UPPERCASE Magazine, Bolt Zine, Femme Fotale, among others. They are a member of Five15Arts, they co-curate Raiz Gallery, and they are a Trunk Space Board Member.

Sewing & Quilting

Lucille began embroidery and hand sewing in 2017 and began machine sewing in 2019. In 2020, they sewed and donated over 100 facemasks before they began quilting. They draw inspiration from their grandmother’s hand-mending skills and from their mother’s seamstress skills along with the intricate quilts they’ve experienced while growing up in rural Pennsylvania and Hawaii.

 

Photography

Lucille’s interest in photography began as an eight-year-old living in Hawaii and solidified during a high-school film photography class. Lucille uses analog film and a blend of manual and automatic camera equipment to document their experiences and to capture their surroundings.  

 

Self Publishing Zines

Lucille began writing feminist zines in 2014, opened Wasted Ink Zine Distro in 2015, and started the Phx Zine Fest in 2016. They’ve published zine titles such as Fem Static Zine, Memoirs of a Liar, Shattered Glass, Survivor Zine, and Unfinished, which they’ve distributed at invitation-only festivals such as the LA Zine Fest, SF Zine Fest, LB Zine Fest and more. You can find their zines in libraries and stores such as the San Diego Public Library, In Other Words Bookstore in Portland, and The Pop-Hop Bookstore in Los Angeles.

Exhibitions & Publications: 

2024-

Nov - machinemachine, a quilted critique on the trauma of labor under U.S. capitalism expanded group show, The Project Space, Phoenix

Sept-Jan - Safety Blankets: Discourse on Neurodivergence, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa

Nov-Jan - Art Quilts: Impact, (Shell to Shell from Soft & Heavy Series), Vision Gallery, Chandler

Aug-Nov - Speak to Me Softly (machinemachine series), Vision Gallery, Chandler

July-Aug - From the Ethers to the Earth, Raiz Gallery, Phoenix

June-Aug - machinemachine, a quilted critique on the trauma of labor under U.S. capitalism, Songbird Coffee & Tea House, Phoenix

May-Oct - Snapshot of Greater Phoenix, Virtual Exhibit

March - machinemachine, a quilted critique on the trauma of labor under U.S. capitalism, Trunk Space, Phoenix

Jan - Artist to Work Reception and Showcase, Sagrado, Phoenix

Jan-June - Safety Blankets: Discourse on Neurodivergence, Phoenix Art Museum’s Education Gallery, Phoenix

2023-

Soft and Heavy: a quilted grief study, Cha Cha’s Tea Lounge, Phoenix

Artists Among Us, Heard Museum Staff Art Show, Phoenix

Thanks for Nothing: Art as a Form of Protest, Trunk Space, Phoenix

Saguaroland, Changing Hands Bookstore/Pravus Gallery, Phoenix

2022-

With Every Fiber of My Being - Safety Blankets Series, Changing Hands Bookstore/Pravus Gallery, Phoenix

Pride Issue, Bolt Zine

Safety Blankets: Discourse on Neurodivergence, Songbird Coffee & Tea House, Phoenix

Quilting For Everybody, Love Quilts Magazine

2021-

Art Quilts, UPPERCASE Magazine 51st Issue

Piecing It Together, First Studio Gallery, Phoenix

From The Ground Up, Raiz Gallery, Phoenix

Quilted Memoir, Art Studio, Phoenix

2019-

The Disposables, The Lily

2018-

Phoenix Film Revival: Intro Group Show, Phoenix Film Revival, Phoenix

Femme Fotale VI: Health Release Party and Gallery Show, ASU Northlight Gallery, Phoenix

2017- 

Nasty Women / Noisy Women / Knitting Women / Naked women, Fine Art Complex, Tempe

Femme Fotale IV: Leafless Release Party, Taste of Tops, Tempe

Open Ended: a photo show about growth, The Hive, Phoenix

2016-

Up Close: A personal evening with the film community., The Drive-Thru Gallery & Studio, Phoenix

PHX SUX Art Show,  The Trunkspace, Phoenix

Girl's Imprint: A Photo Show By Femme Fotale, The Drive- Thru Gallery & Studio, Phoenix

Femme Fotale Release Party, Taste of Tops, Tempe

Self: The Realization of Autonomy, The Liquor Gallery, Tempe

2015-

Zone 1: Home Grown Art, Cartel Coffee Lab, Fiftyone West, Taste of Tops, Tempe

My Skin, My Salvation, Wasted Ink Zine Distro, Tempe

Intolerant Voices, The Sp(a)ce, Phoenix

Projects and Press: 

Paper Jam + Print

Wasted Ink Zine Distro

Phx Zine Fest

Femme Fotale

Fem Static Zine

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