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The Candidates on the Arts
Ahead of the forum, we asked all candidates to submit responses to a survey that frames some of the questions and concerns from arts organizations, artists, and creative workers.
Click on the candidates’ photos below to read their responses to the survey.
Thanks to the Arts Coalition Partners
Thank You to the Moderators
Vivian Phillips
is a veteran arts producer, marketer, and civic advocate. Over the years, she’s moderated conversations with Harry Belafonte, Gloria Steinem, Magic Johnson, Ta-Nehesi Coates, Ruby Bridges, and many others. Her passion for culture has led to partnerships with arts organizations on five continents. She is the co-host of the podcast Double Xposure, which explores how culture and creativity shape our lives.
Marcie Sillman
is an award-winning radio journalist. For more than three decades, she covered arts for Seattle’s KUOW and NPR. She’s also a rower, knitter, baker, and author of Out There: Jonathan Porretta's Life in Dance. She is the co-host of the podcast Double Xposure, which explores how culture and creativity shape our lives.
Thank You to the Arts Forum Poet-in-Residence
Poet Ching-In Chen
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American hybrid writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart's Traffic and recombinant (winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as the chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Finalist for the Leslie Scalapino Award). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They have received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat and Imagining America and are a part of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. www.chinginchen.com
Arts Around Seattle
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