Lakiba Pittman is a creative artist, consultant and educator. She is a Senior Adjunct Professor at Menlo College and she also designs and delivers specialized workshops on race and racism, cultural sensitivity and competency, social justice, mindfulness, and trauma healing. Lakiba is certified to teach Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training © Workshops. She is currently working on her 2nd edition of her self-published book “Bread Crumbs from The Soul… Finding Your Way Back Home,” a showcase featuring her original art, poetry and autobiographical reflections. In 2020, she opened as a feature guest poet at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) Open Mic Series. For the last few years, her art has been featured along with over fifty women at The Black Woman is God art exhibit at SomARTS in San Francisco. She was one of the featured poets at the 50th year celebration of the Black Arts Movement, and most recently was featured in Black Fire – This Time, showcasing Black poets from the Black Consciousness movement. Lakiba was a keynote presenter using poetry as a self-healing process for Sister Spirit’s Annual Retreat and most recently was a featured speaker at Stanford University’s Fireside Chats on wellness. Lakiba was the Director for Nairobi Institute of Cultural Arts and was a founding member of the Congolese Music & Dance Ensemble – Fua Dia Congo. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Psychology with a specialization in Consciousness, Spirituality and Integrated Health.
Artist Statement
These pen & ink drawings are part of my Ancestral Images series. They represent the grounding and realization that the ancestral realms are always around and about us -- feeding us images, sounds, words, songs and essences of life beyond words to heal and guide us on this earthly walk. Each of my art pieces represent stages of my own development and ongoing healing of historical and current day traumas reminding me ... reminding us that the Spirit realm is always at hand... that is as we dip down into our own souls we will find our way ... that a word, a song, an art piece can lead us home to where we know ourselves to be Divine .. surely where the Black Woman is God.
