Community Arts Partner

Participant Details

Community Arts Partner Name

Daemond Arrindell

Partner Type

Individual

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Individual Bio or
Organizational Statement

Daemond Arrindell is a poet, playwright, performer, and teaching artist. He is a faculty member of TAT Lab: the Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab; Freehold Theatre - leading poetry and theater residencies at Monroe Correctional Complex for men for over ten years; Adjunct faculty at Seattle University and Tacoma’s School of the Arts; Senior Writer-In-Residence through Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools Program and Skagit River Poetry Foundation. As a writer, he is a 2014 Jack Straw Writer, a VONA Voices Writers’ Workshop fellow and his work has been published by City Arts, Poetry NW, Specter and Crosscut magazines. In 2013 he was chosen for “13 for ‘13,” a joint project between the Seattle Times and KUOW, profiling thirteen influential people in Seattle’s art scene. He featured alongside Sherman Alexie in TEXTure - a conversation amongst artists via their chosen mediums; was a featured poet in the 2016 Skagit River Poetry Festival; featured in KISS FEAR - a collaboration of poetry, sculpture and video in touching, powerful and sometimes darkly humorous ruminations on America’s weapon of choice; and co-adapted the highly acclaimed contemporary and satirical novel “Welcome To Braggsville,” by T. Geronimo Johnson into a play for Book-It Repertory Theater. Braggsville debuted in June 2017.