Spring Creek Project and PRAx Present: MOsley WOtta, Sketch and Release: Black Creatives in Rural Oregon
What are we willing to risk to see each other's humanity? To explore that question as well as themes of connection, boundaries, and our shared future history, MOsley WOtta stages an hour-long performance of storytelling, conversation, spoken word and song. The evening will include excerpts from the emerging documentary series Sketch and Release: Black Creatives in Rural Oregon and the forthcoming album Open Close Doors.
Jason McNeal Graham (aka MOsley WOtta) works across multiple mediums, including writing, painting, music and performance. He is Bend Oregon’s first Creative Laureate, a Fields Fellow and Salem Art Association Fellow, as well as an Oregon Slam Poetry Champion. His music, literary performance and visual art have been featured internationally, including via NPR, OPB, Living Future Con, TED X, Oregon Community Foundation (invited speaker), Goddard College (resident scholar), Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, Street Con Dubai, Fish Trap Writes, High Desert Museum, Valley Forge Fiesta and many more. His work primarily focuses on creating positive connections between the negative space of perceived difference.
Graham completed a collaborative residency through Spring Creek Project's Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, where part of this project took shape.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for Lightbox Happy Hour. Come early to mingle and grab a glass of wine, beer or sparkling beverage.