L. Frank
Tongva/Ajachmen

L. Frank is a Tongva/Ajachmen artist, tribal scholar, and community activist. She is a Board Member of the California Indian Basketweavers Association and one of seven founding board members of Indigenous California Language Survival, organizations that are involved in the preservation and revival of Native Californian languages through traditional arts practice, language immersion, conferences and workshops. She has won several awards for her activities, including from the American Association of University Women, the James Irvine Foundation, the Fund for Folk Culture (for travel to the Native Californian art collection at the Musée de l' Homme in Paris). In 1995 she was featured as a "Local Hero" in KQED-TV/Examiner Newspaper's Native American Heritage Month series. In 1990, L. Frank was Artist in Residence at the Headland Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California; her artwork has been exibited widely throughout the state and appears in several publications, including a regular column/graphic, "Acorn Soup," in the quarterly newsletter News from Native California.