On Friday June 9, 2023, we unveiled Marsha to the world. Read the full announcement below…
West Hollywood Artist Sküt and Serve Robotics Debut Pride Month Art Collab “Marsha” Delivery Robot
June 9, 2023, West Hollywood, CA
Artist Sküt (Scott Lewallen) and Serve Robotics debut Marsha, a new delivery robot art collab, rolling out at Pink Dot to the streets of West Hollywood featuring original artwork to celebrate Pride Month.
"We're honored to partner with Sküt for our first artist collaboration, honoring LGBTQ history for Pride Month,” says Ali Kashani, Co-Founder and CEO of Serve Robotics. “West Hollywood has been our community since we started, and at Serve we recognize its diversity as a strength. This is one small way we can amplify that story.”
The Artist Sküt (Scott Lewallen) poses with his art collab “Marsha” Pride delivery robot by Serve Robotics at Pink Dot debut in West Hollywood California for Pride Month 2023. Photograph by Mike Pingel for Weho Times.
Sol Yamini, owner of Pink Dot on the Sunset Strip adds “As one of the founding companies to utilize Serve, we are excited and honored to host this new Pride delivery robot Marsha in the innovative and creative city of West Hollywood.”
“I see these robots all over Weho,” explains Sküt. “So I pitched a Pride art collab to Serve. Their team loved the concept and we ran with it.”
The artwork merges artist Gilbert Baker’s original 1978 eight-color Rainbow Pride Flag with the modern 2018 “Progress Pride” flag by Daniel Quasar highlighting Trans and POC communities.
“As a designer I love to solve problems visually. I looked at historical pride flag iterations, and wanted to upgrade those colors for a variety of modern mediums,” Sküt elaborates “I crafted this harmonious spectrum into a pop-art inspired graphic illustration to honor the past and embrace the present with a fresh 13-color ‘Pride Fusion’ design.”
The artist Sküt (Scott Lewallen) @inkedbyskut poses with West Hollywood Mayor pro tem John Erickson, Pink Dot owner Sol Yamini, Serve Robotics VP Vignesh Ganapathy, and Weho Council Member Chelsea Beyers at the unveiling of “Marsha” Pride Month delivery robot art collab design by Sküt. Photograph by Mike Pingel for Weho Times.
Marsha, the Serve Robotics Pride delivery robot, is named after the late Marsha P. Johnson, a queer liberation trans activist and self-identified drag queen who was prominent in the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Johnson was a courageous and inspiring advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and is remembered as a hero and icon.
City of West Hollywood Mayor pro tempore John Erickson adds “I’m so excited to see Serve and Pink Dot partnering with WeHo’s very own Sküt to honor our history’s past with this amazing design of Marsha. I look forward to seeing her prideful colors all around West Hollywood.”
“We pay homage to trailblazers who sacrificed so much for us to champion our rights, liberties, and ongoing progress today,” concludes Sküt. “Love is Love, and art is vital to celebrating humanity through creativity and happiness.”
About The Artist
Sküt @inkedbyskut (Scott Lewallen) is a LA native, featured West Hollywood local artist and muralist, and member of Artlounge Collective. He has exhibited at Mondrian Los Angeles, Aquarium of the Pacific, The Artist Tree, TAG Gallery, The Other Art Fair, and V Wine Room Weho. You know Scott as original designer and Co-Founder of Grindr (the world's largest social network for gay, bi, trans, and queer people) and advocate for LGBTQ and environmental causes. Sküt teaches paint & sketch art classes in local venues like Or Bar Weho and The Studio Lounge at The Artist Tree. New art by Sküt is currently showing at Artlounge, on La Brea at Beverly.
Press
Weho Times “Serve Robotics Debuts ‘Marsha’ Pride Delivery Robot by WeHo Artist Sküt”
WehoVille “Delivery robot Marsha is blazing trails for LGBTQIA+ community”
