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Take the 30 Day Challenge! Card designs, artwork, photography by artist Carol Rashawnna Williams Designed to jumpstart a self awareness journey currently for sale

Accepted to Vashon Artist Residency

Carol to create artwork in 2023 at the Vashon Artist Residency

Accepted to Centrum Artist Residency

Carol to attend the Centrum Artist Residency in 2023

CRW Consultant Seattle City Lights 1st Arts Planning Committee

2022
Carol worked as a consultant with City of Seattle's City Light to establish the first City Wide Seattle City Light 10 year Art Plan.

OPEN HOUSE: BIPOC Sustainable Tiny Art House Community

Come celebrate and find out all about BIPOC STAHC May 14th 2022 11am-3pm. This is a community event with tours, memberships, artist residencies.

Beyoncé Mass Created and curated by Reverend Yolanda Norton, Visiting Professor at Moravia

Saturday May 7, 2022

Beyoncé Mass
Created and curated by Reverend Yolanda Norton, Visiting Professor at Moravian Theological Seminary and founder of the Global Arts and Theology Experience (GATE), the inaugural Beyoncé Mass drew roughly 1,000 people at its inaugural event at San Franciscos historic Grace Cathedral in April 2018. Since then, the worship service has traveled to Los Angeles, Calif, Lisbon, Portugal, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., etc.

"This is not a service deifying Beyonce"...."What we are committed to is telling the story of Black women, about amplifying the reality that God is wrapped up in the speech, movement, and existence of Black women. We simply use a Black woman's music--Beyonce--to do this work."

The liturgy of Beyoncé Mass includes music from Beyonces vast discography, readings from prominent Black female leaders, and a sermon from Rev. Norton, who is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel and holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary and B.A. in political science from Syracuse University. Rev. Norton is serving as the Visiting Theologian at University Congregational UCC, Seattle, this year.

Beyoncé Mass is an in-person worship service only. There will be no streaming nor recording for later viewing due to licensing restrictions. For health and safety reasons, please bring and wear a mask. Masks are required during the service.

If tickets for Beyoncé Mass are sold out, email us at lectureseries@universityucc.org to be added to the waitlist.

Beyoncé Mass Created and curated by Reverend Yolanda Norton, Visiting Professor at Moravia

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 7 P.M., in the cathedral nave, registration required

This groundbreaking Christian worship event, hosted and co-sponsored by Saint Mark's, was created in 2018 by a team led by The Rev. Yolanda M. Norton (Disciples of Christ). Beyoncé Mass is a worship service rooted in womanist theology that uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about Black women—their lives, their bodies, and their voices.

What if “Flaws and All” was a song about a complicated relationship with God?

What if “Survivor” spoke to how Black women thrive even as they’re undervalued and underestimated?

Beyoncé Mass is a womanist worship service. Womanism recognizes and celebrates the lives, beauty, culture, spirituality, and experiences of Black women and is committed to the survival, well-being, and wholeness of all people. The event explores how Black women find their voice, represent the image of God, and create spaces for liberation.

This event is free, but registration is required. Register to attend mass at Brown Paper Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5395087

See the official press release below, and learn more at the Beyoncé Mass webpage.
BEYONCÉ MASS COMES TO Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral SEATTLE
In-person, May 6, 2022, 7 p.m.
Beyoncé Mass is a groundbreaking Christian worship service featuring Beyonce’s music that celebrates the spirituality of Black women

Seattle, WA - On Friday, May 6th, 2022, an ecumenical coalition of churches will welcome the in-person Beyoncé Mass to Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. The worship service uses the music and life of Beyoncé as a tool to cultivate an empowering conversation about Black women—their lives, bodies, and voices—and create an experience of story, scripture, and song that calls for the liberation of all people. Beyoncé Mass will begin at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm. The mass is free, and all are welcome but registration is required.

Register to attend mass at Brown Paper Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5395087

Created and curated by Reverend Yolanda Norton, Visiting Professor at Moravian Theological Seminary and founder of the Global Arts and Theology Experience (GATE), the inaugural Beyoncé Mass drew roughly 1,000 people at its debut at San Francisco’s historic Grace Cathedral in April 2018. Since then, the worship service has traveled to Los Angeles, Calif, Lisbon, Portugal, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and other locations.

“Beyoncé Mass is a Christian worship service that is open to all,” stated Rev. Norton. “This is not a ceremony deifying Beyoncé. The premise of this service is that if we look at the personal life, career trajectory, music, and public persona of Beyoncé, so much of her life reflects aspects of Black women’s stories.”

The liturgy of Beyoncé Mass includes music from Beyonce’s vast discography, readings from prominent Black female leaders, and a sermon from Rev. Norton, who is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel and holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary and B.A. in political science from Syracuse University.

Rev. Norton has served at Visiting Theologian at University Congregational United Church of Christ during the 2021/22 year, utilizing her expertise, training in theological education and spiritual formation, and commitment to social justice to enhance UCUCC’s adopted commitment as a racial justice congregation and inclusive community.

Learn more about Beyoncé Mass here: www.beyoncemass.com

BIPOC STAHC COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE BBQ

4627 S Holly Street, 98118
11am-3pm

Came hang with your community!

EXHIBITION: Nov 2021 - Apr 2022 - Bellevue Art Museum

BIPOC STAHC Tiny House Exhibition on Exhibit at the Bellevue Art Museum by Carol Rashawnna Williams

EXHIBITION: City of Seattle, OAC - Feb - Apr 7, 2022

Exhibition the 1 Million; Species Eradication by Artist Carol Rashawnna Williams,

CAMPFIRE STORIES - SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE

CAMPFIRES DESIGNED & CREATED BY ARTIST

CAROL RASHAWNNA WILLIAMS

FOR

Fundraising event April 12th

ARTIST Carol Rashawnna Williams Designs CAMPFIRE STORIES CENTER PIECES AND STAGE SET on view at the Sustainability Leadership Awards Friday April 12 at 6:30pm

LOCATION: 415 Westlake

415 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, Washington 98109

FIRST THURSDAY ART PARTY - MAY 2ND

'First Thursday Art Party'

HOSTED by

CHAMPION SOUNDS ALL STARS

Location: i5 Pho

Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

213 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

9pm - til midnight

FREE EVENT

Carol recieves 2019 Scholarship Award to Common Field

What is Common Field?

Common Field is a National Network of independent arts organizations and organizers.

MISSION

Common Field connects, supports and advocates for the artist-centered field by providing a network for independent arts organizations and organizers.

ABOUT

Common Field is a national network of independent visual arts organizations and organizers that connects, supports, and advocates for the artist-centered field. Founded in 2013 and launched in 2015, the Common Field network has 700+ members across 43 states. Programs include national convenings, grants, research, resources, forums, meet-ups and advocacy. Our vision is to increase understanding, involvement and knowledge of artists organizations and their value, and increase their capacity through national connectivity, dialog understanding and support.

Common Field’s network includes contemporary, experimental, noncommercial artist-centric organizations and organizers including alternative art spaces, publications, digital exhibition venues, residencies, platforms, collectives, collaboratives, and individual organizers. These projects and spaces provide interdisciplinary and hybrid forms for art production, reception, and exchange. They generate independent, responsive, grassroots, artist-centered cultures. They support artists, connect artists with the public in intimate, experimental, and generative ways, and they are deeply involved in the shape and characters of the contexts where they work. Our members stimulate ideas, imagination, and innovation in their communities.

GOALS

Creating broad public visibility for artist organizations and organizers
Articulating the common practices and values of visual arts organizing
Sharing histories and stories of the field
Facilitating forums for convening, peer-to-peer knowledge, and exchange across geographies and communities
Providing platforms for resources, tools, and advocacy
Demonstrating responsive, diverse, and accessible approaches to creative production

Group Exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center

Capability is a meditation on gun culture and gun violence in the United States. Artists from the local and national community reflect on the multi-faceted ways in which guns have woven themselves into our cultural identity. Capability uses compassion and empathy to dissect the historical and contemporary contexts that address the questions: How did we get here? How do we move forward?

Featuring Scott Horn, Holly Ballard Martz, Carol Rashawnna, and many more, Capability asks the viewer to contend with our national history and our personal identities. What are we capable of doing as individuals? What are we capable of allowing as a nation? How can we talk about these problems without vilifying the “other side” – whomever that means?

The themes with which we frame gun violence have changed throughout the 21st century, but guns have continued to be a focal point in our art making as our society grapples what their place is in this contemporaneous moment. What makes “Capability” different is that it ties multiple themes together. Instead of treating police brutality, suicide, mass shootings, hunting, masculinity, and more, as separate issues, it looks at the way that gun use and gun violence are threads that link together these strands in our society.

This exhibit is in partnership with the UW Emerging Curator Initiative (ECI). ECI allows Museology students develop exhibit concepts, and one student is selected to curate their concept through a show at the Kirkland Arts Center.

Curator

Maggie DeFranco, UW Museology Graduate Student, Class of 2019

Featured Artists

Meaghan Kelly
David Sokal
Carol Rashawnna
Emily Erb
Scott Horn
Holly Ballard Martz
Chris Buening
Emma Petersky
Melanie Reed

Opening Reception

Friday, March 22th, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Free to the public. Meet the artists and curator. $5 wine and beer.

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ARTWORK BY CAROL RASHAWNNA WILLIAMS:

ABOUT THE INSTALLATION: ‘BODY BAG’

PERSONAL STORIES: 85% of those killed by gun violence are black Americans and youth. These are my personal stories related to gun violence.
LEGACY-ASSASSINATIONS: We as Americans forget there is a legacy related to guns in the African American community & that legacy started with slavery, and slaves not being allowed gun right privileges.
IN THE NEWS: These are the contemporary stories portrayed in our news media.
COWRY SHELLS: Traditionally, in Africa, these shells were used as a form of currency to trade goods. Guns traditionally have been purchased to protect ‘property’ and ‘resources,’ and ‘capital’ - these symbolize stories of gun violence as currency, capital and the power of stories as wealth.

Exhibition Details:

620 Market Street
Kirkland, WA 98033

(425) 822-7161
info@kirklandartscenter.org

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 11 AM-6 PM
Saturday, 11 AM-5 PM
Sunday-Monday, Closed

Office Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9 AM-5 PM