Seattle is known for its world-class summers and we all have our favorite activities that make up the season. Individuals are invited to reflect on their summer favorites and capture what makes the season so memorable at the Scenes of Summer Collage Workshop. Encouraging new perspectives on the season as well as reflection on why the summertime experience in Seattle is so unique, participants will leave with their own custom-made artwork highlighting their local favorites. Utilizing Public Display Art magazines, individuals will leave more informed on local events, organizations, artists, and more, allowing them to further connect with their community. Empowered with skills to remain creative, even when uninspired, participants will leave ready to continue creating as they come across the freely available Public Display Art magazines in daily life.
Moët McClain, known as The Jazzy Historian, approaches history as a living, community-held archive rather than a fixed record. Rooted in her identity as a Black Cherokee Freedman with centuries of familial ties to Oklahoma—including growing up in the segregated neighborhood where survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre rebuilt their lives—she uses collage as both method and metaphor to reconstruct histories that have been fragmented, obscured, or erased. Through paper collage, archival imagery, memory, and speculative storytelling, McClain draws on the traditions of public history and folk art to reassemble archival fragments and inherited memory, imagining Black futures grounded in historical truth. Her work invites viewers to consider who shapes history, whose stories endure, and how communities preserve, interpret, and carry their own legacies forward.