by Jasmyne Keimig • Mar 1, 2021 at 3:10 pm
Pretend like those fences and Honey Buckets aren t there. JK
Amidst all the construction and Honey Buckets on the Broadway mixed-used development and plaza just above the Capitol Hill Link station, public art is quietly blooming.
As part of the AIDS Memorial Pathway (AMP) project, last December saw the installation of the poet and interdisciplinary artist Storme Webber s In This Way We Loved One Another inside the Community Roots Housing’s Station House. Fashioned as a tribute to the missing narratives of women and Black people lost to the AIDS crisis, the installation is viewable to the public from the street on E John.
by Jasmyne Keimig • Feb 18, 2021 at 3:30 pm
Can t wait to hop onto the light rail to go from the Capitol Hill Arts & Cultural District to the Rainier Valley Creative District. BEN HORAKAfua Kouyate, executive director of ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop, is leading an effort to designate southeast Seattle as a creative district under the state s Creative District (CD) program. Having situated her arts organization within the community for over three decades, Kouyate sees the move as a way of remembering what Rainier Valley is about and who we are.
The proposed CD s boundaries would stretch from John Muir Elementary School in the north to Rainier Beach High School in the south and get boxed in by the blocks surrounding Rainier Avenue. If approved, the Rainier Valley Creative District would be the ninth state-approved CD and the first situated within Seattle s borders. (The Capitol Hill, Uptown, Columbia City and Hillman City, and Cent
A few things about author Mairead Case: She’s a Denver writer shaped by Chicago. Her first name rhymes with parade. She teaches English in Denver Public Schools and at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the Colorado School of Mines and the Denver Women s Jail. She’s also a legal observer, a yoga instructor and an associate editor of the magazine
Maggot Brain. Yeah, she’s busy, working the multiple jobs required of most in the creative community in 2021. So busy that the only way to really cover all the things she’s doing is to flat-out list them one after the other.
Claudia Castro Luna is
Seattle’s Civic Poet, from 2015-2017 and is the author of the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press) and
This City, (Floating Bridge Press) and the creator of the acclaimed Seattle Poetic Grid. She is also a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna, a 2014 Jack Straw fellow, the recipient of a King County 4Culture grant and an individual artist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. She has an MA in Urban Planning, a teaching certificate and an MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest,