Making a Monument: Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman
San Francisco Arts Commission

October 11, 2024

Monument LAB FOR Lava Thomas

October 10, 2024

Monument Unveiling Live-stream
San Francisco Main Library

September 19, 2024

City Lights with Lois Reitzes: Artist Lava THomas
WABE Atlanta

September 16, 2022 | Listen to the podcast here

Conversation with Paul Farber
Monument Lab

August 2022 | Full podcast and transcript here.

I recently spoke with Monument Lab’s Executive Director, Paul Farber about my forthcoming monument to honor Dr. Maya Angelou, slated for installation at SF’s main public library next year. Paul and I discuss the project’s journey, my ideas for the monument’s design, and how monuments have the power to embody ideology and ignite movements. The podcast is part of the series, Future Memory, a Monument Lab public art and history podcast. Co-hosts Paul Farber and Li Sumpter explore stories and critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments. Thank you Paul and Monument Lab!

LAVA THOMAS: homecoming
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

April 9 - July 4, 2022

ARTIST LECTURE WITH LAVA THOMAS
MILLS COLLEGE

February 9, 2022

conversation with curator Amina Cooper and artists Lava Thomas, Martha Jackson Jarvis
PUBLIC ART NOW

January 6, 2022

The Black Index: Artists In Conversation
GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

January 21, 2021

Lava Thomas and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Monumental: Public Art and Protest 2020
UC BERKELEY, DEPARTMENT OF ART PRACTICE

November 2, 2020

Hung Liu in Conversation with Lava Thomas
RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY

October 9, 2020

Lava Thomas: In the Artist’s Studio
the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

June 17, 2020

Contemporary Artists in Conversation with History: 1968
with Alfredo Jaar, Sam Gilliam, E. Carmen Ramos, and LavA Thomas
Smithsonian American Art Museum

April 4, 2018

Meet the Artist: Lava Thomas on ‘Requiem for Charleston’
Smithsonian American Art Museum

November 13, 2017