Mellon Design Justice Celebration
Join us on Friday, October 21 from 5-8 PM to celebrate a semester-long design investigation with our guests from Cornell University and former Michigan Mellon Fellow Suzanne Lettieri at the Michigan Research Studio. We will have food catered by Mi Pueblo, spoken word set from Kresge Fellows Jassmine Parks and MARS. with a live DJ set from local artist Alex Mayo. Please RSVP below!
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Jassmine Parks
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Jassmine Parks is a spoken word poet and slam champion from Detroit. Her work examines the resiliency of the Black feminine experience and intergenerational trauma. She explores, heals, and disrupts unhealthy cycles at both personal and systemic levels. Parks, also a dedicated educator, serves as the lead teaching artist of InsideOut Literary Arts. She believes in the power of language to reflect on past experiences, build agency, and activate healing. She has been awarded fellowships from Kresge, InsideOut and the Room Project. Her short film blk is a resistance against silencing and erasure in communities of color has been accepted into Film Blast Detroit, Black Alphabet Film Festival and Culcarous Film Festival and has won an audience selection award. Her work has been published with SlamFind and All Def Poetry and is forthcoming in Obsidian Literary Magazine.
MARS.
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MARS. is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. Their work has been published in Obsidian Literature & Arts for the African Diaspora, Michigan Quarterly Review: The Mixtape, Foglifter Journal, Gertrude Press, and elsewhere. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their debut chapbook, FLOWER BOI, is forthcoming from Gold Line Press in Spring 2023.
Alex Mayo
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Alex Mayo is an emerging Detroit-based Producer, Fashion Designer, and DJ under the moniker xtrMayo. 

xtrMayo is as every bit of extra as the name suggests. His tendency to blend unconventionality and push the boundaries of sound is a reflection of his life's narrative to what he has dubbed a story of "Love & Rage". 

After a eight year hiatus from music due to mental health, Alex Mayo returned in October of 2021 with a fresh perspective that has since filled up local dance floors with visions to take it global. "I found my voice and gave it rhythm, not just with music but life." 

A year in he's set to take it to the next level. His next show on October 23rd, will be his debut at TV Lounge, a renowned Detroit venue, in which he will showcase some unreleased songs of his next project title "That Thing". 

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