Meet art activists Jiéyì Ludden, E.T. Russian, and Scott Méxcal on this panel discussing what it means to be an activist and how you can share messages through your art. Artists will examine disability, queerness, and cultural traditions.
Presented in partnership with the King County Library System's Rainbow Teen Advisory Board and BAM's Teen Arts Council.
Virtual event (Pacific Time)
Free
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email [email protected] at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.
About the Panelists
Jiéyì Ludden (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and educator using expressive meaning-making and civic engagement practices to shift our cultures towards a more inclusive, diverse, and beautiful future. Jiéyì takes a holistic approach to making and teaching by beginning with audience. They believe that it is their life's work to show people how to make friends with their feelings so that we may all better play and imagine and take care of ourselves, each other, and the planet.
Scott Méxcal (he/him) was born amidst the nopal and yucca on the bank of the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Scott's ancestors have lived along the river on both sides of what is today the Mexican/U.S border for countless generations. Scott is Chicano, descended from indigenous people and Spanish/European colonizers. Scott spent his young life in the family garage building lowrider-bikes and cars, in the barrio creating street art and tattooing, and in the Catholic church where the lines between spirituality, healing, and art blurred together in his mind.
E.T. Russian (they/them) is a multi-sensory artist based in the Pacific Northwest and has been making zines, comics, video and installation art about disability, queerness, and life, since the mid-90s. Russian’s graphic journalism is currently in the international traveling exhibition “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn”. Russian has exhibited internationally and across the United States and has a forthcoming video comic installation that opens December 2019 at the Hedreen Gallery in Seattle/Coast Salish Territory.
