Seattle Presents Lecture: Mark Mitchell with Scott Winn
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Seattle Presents featured artist It’s Mark Mitchell and Scott Winn will discuss race, identity, and intersectionality in the Seattle Presents gallery (at the entrance to the Seattle Municipal Tower on 5th & Columbia) on Thursday, June 23rd from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Mark Mitchell’s work incorporates dressmaking and millinery techniques to create unique, hand crafted, complex objects. Casket Pall Residency will result in a work that will be part of a larger project, made up of a number of Mitchell’s works. For the work in the gallery the flag will be bordered with text bearing the lyric to the song Mary, Don’t You Weep, a slave song that tucks the Old Testament story of the slaves fleeing Egypt into a story about Jesus. The work will be made using shadow appliqué and reverse shadow appliqué, a combination of two ancient needlework techniques. The gallery will also include sketches of Mitchell’s preliminary work related to Casket Pall Residency.

Scott Winn is a Policy and Development Lead for the City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative, a member of the Organizing Collective of the Coalition of Anti-racist Whites, and also a faculty member of the University of Washington, School of Social Work where he teaches courses centered on social workers as agents for social and economic change.

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