Cass Arrington is a 23 year old multimedia artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BA in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Studies at Yale College. Arrington’s artwork centers intimacy, wilderness, and transience in queer and Black kinships. Their practice has been heavily informed by their own experience growing up queer, Black, and deeply sentient. Poetry has served as an important artistic outlet for Arrington through their involvement with the Philly Youth Poetry Movement, Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival, Yale University Art Gallery, and WORD Performance Poetry at Yale. In 2024, Arrington became a resident artist at the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image and the Painted Bride Art Center. As a product of Philadelphia’s visual art and poetry scene, Arrington developed an intimate relationship to the arts as a means for survival. They channel this perspective into their work, determined to depict urban, Black, and queer communities with care.