Equity + Art + Home with Inye Wokoma

“It just so happens that the family business is Black liberation,” photographer and filmmaker Inye Wokoma tells Trae in EPISODE THREE of EQUITY RISING. Inye and three other Seattle artists founded Wa Na Wari in 2019, inside a Central District neighborhood home that once belonged to his grandparents. The location, and the generational history, is key to understanding what this important and imaginative arts organization is all about: “reclaiming Black cultural spaces and making a statement about the importance of Black land ownership in gentrified communities.” 

Trae and Inye talk about arts as an engine of change, the specific goals and gifts of Wa Na Wari, and the land reclamation movement through an “open source” lens.  

Learn more about Wa Na Wari and their events and current exhibits. You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram. 

Visit Inye’s personal art website. 

Seattle musician Bubba Jones provides a beautiful Chime-In this week, reflecting on his lifelong friend’s ability to put an idea into the world, and then actually bring that idea into action.