Launch party for Mourning Attire

Name: Launch party for Mourning Attire
Start: 2025-12-04T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-04T20:00:00-08:00
Location: 322 NW 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97209-3504, United States

Schedule

Thu Dec 04 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

322 NW 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97209-3504, United States | Portland, OR

JOIN US on Thursday, 12.4 from 6-8 PM for this FREE event! We’re welcoming Kacy McKinney to celebrate the launch of MOURNING ATTIRE, a book of comics poetry about love and loss.
Kacy McKinney is a self-taught visual artist and scholar/educator based in Portland, Oregon. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of Washington. She works in comics, drawing, illustration, and textile and garment design. After 15 years teaching in higher education, she recently launched Bushtit and is focused on work as an independent scholar/artist.
She is the creator of CHANGING THE NARRATIVE: STORIES OF STUDENT HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING INSTABILITY (2022) and the follow up project EPILOGUE (2024). She edited and designed the comic book UPROOTED: VOICES OF STUDENT HOMELESSNESS (2024). Kacy is now working with artist Daren Todd and Street Roots on a project about street newspaper vendors. These community-based collaborative research projects use comics to build empathy to change how we talk, teach, and think about homelessness and poverty.