Natasha Marin

Natasha Marin is a Seattle-based conceptual artist, published poet,[1] and activist with roots in Trinidad and Canada, whose work focuses on people, community, and healing.

The project began with an art exhibit in January 2018 called “Black Imagination: The States of Matter,” at CORE Gallery in Seattle.

[3] MOTHERLAND, another in Marin’s Black Imagination series of art exhibitions, was shown at Vermillion Gallery in April 2022.

[10] Exploring belonging and displacement, the exhibition included “Cloth Mother,” a sculpture representing spirits and ancestors made of raw cotton, cowry shells, tribal, kente, and Ankara fabrics sourced directly from the motherland.

[15] Interviews with Marin about the book were featured on KUOW-FM “Speakers forum: Black voices, origins, and futures,”[16] and on KEXP-FM, “Sound & Vision: Natasha Marin on Black Imaginations,”[2] complete with a playlist of origin stories from the book.