Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.
Initiated by the DEI Core, the Public Art and Community Dialogue program provides an opportunity for artists, employees and the broader community to be in dialogue about community solidarity and the pursuit of equity in research and health care.
Fred Hutch is celebrating and showcasing the artwork of diverse artists within our global community across our South Lake Union campus and in programming activities. Artists selected for the program through open calls will engage in dialogue with each other and Hutch employees and create commissioned work informed by these conversations. These art installations serve to engage other underrepresented communities and create broader and connected messages of solidarity.
Dr. Joe Ungco leads Fred Hutch employees and community members in conversation centering Asian, Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AAANHPI) communities as they reflect on lived experiences, healing and solidarity. These dialogues focus on shared experiences and commonalities among members of diverse, complex and widespread Asian diasporas.
Stories sustain communities, validate experiences, and connect us to one another. We invite you to watch and reflect on these previously recorded conversations. Artists, panelists, employees and community members share stories and lived experiences related to healing, joy, and solidarity. These conversations drive our commitment to inclusion and inspire our public artwork.
Calling all PNW LGBTQ+ visual artists for Fred Hutch’s Public Art and Community Dialogue Program! Selected artists will create commissioned artwork informed by our Community Dialogues to be displayed across the Fred Hutch Seattle campus and featured in public and community program materials. Selected artists will also receive $5,000 for their commission and participation in the program.
Mark Modimola, Public Art and Community Dialogue Artist
In March of 2021, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center released a statement in solidarity with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in response to rising acts of anti-Asian hate, harassment, murder and terror. We stand firmly against racial oppression in all its forms, including all acts of violence, and we resist the psychosocial violence of denying the reality of racist-motivated crime.
The Hutch calls on our community to support one another; report hate incidents at stopaapihate.org; offer support and encouragement to one another, especially our colleagues and friends in the Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander community; and continue our own learning about anti-Asian hate.