DVAA Member since 2026

Cassidy Arrington

2026 DVAA resident

Instagram: @yeahmancass

About:

Cassidy Arrington is a nonbinary multi-media artist based in and from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arrington’s artwork centers intimacy, wilderness, and transience in queer and Black coming of age. Their poetry has been featured in Yale University Art Gallery, WORD Performance Poetry at Yale, Healing Verse Poetry Line, and more. They have shown photographs, poems, and films at Scribe Video Center, William Way LGBT Community Center, Asian Arts Initiative, Vox Populi, Sinister Wisdom Literary Journal, and beyond. Arrington graduated from Yale College with a BA in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Studies in 2023, and have since served as a resident artist at the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, the Painted Bride Art Center, and most recently, the Da Vinci Art Alliance.