Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

Right to Privacy, Watercolor, 2022

I defend the notion that the abortion right is part of a right to privacy which is supported by five constitutional provisions.

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Ph.D. is both a visual artist and a cultural anthropologist who creates installations that blur the line between ethnography and art. She has received numerous awards for her artwork exhibited at galleries and museums in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Currently, her installation Mending the Past is traveling through galleries and museums in the United States as part of the exhibit Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy. Lydia has been Artist in Residence at The De Young Museum of Art of San Francisco, Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Kala Art Institute, and the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at Virginia Tech University. She lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at the California College of the Arts.