Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Marks of RED at Northrop

For the final work in a three-year artistic partnership with Northrop and the Walker Art Center, MacArthur Fellow Shamel Pitts and multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE present the world premiere of the Walker and Northrop Centennial Commission Marks of RED, an Afrofuturistic meditation on the “womb space.” Pitts and TRIBE as collaborators are exploring perceived spaces of regeneration, enfoldment, implosion, rupture, and potential. This next chapter in the RED Series delves into the nuanced multiplicity and deep complexity of self-expression and shared human experiences. Marks of RED continues Pitts’ research to share the colorfulness within Blackness.

In 2025, Northrop and the Walker Art Center copresented Touch of RED and in 2024 BLACK HOLE – Trilogy And Triathlon with Shamel Pitts and TRIBE. Please join us for the final performance in this valued creative collaboration.