Black Arts Legacies
Marita Dingus: Finding beauty in what’s discarded
The longtime Seattle artist salvages old cloth, scrap metal and assorted cast-offs to make dolls and sculptures that hum with humanity.
Jasmine Mahmoud
Jasmine Mahmoud is a project editor at Crosscut, where she contributes to the Black Arts Legacies project. She is also assistant professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies at the University
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Black Arts Legacies
Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr.: Building modernist Northwest spaces
The first Black architect in Washington changed Seattle’s cityscape, pairing sleek modern buildings with a civic-minded approach.