Scholar

Pamela Sneed

Poet, Performance Artist, Actress, Activist, and Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University
Pamela Sneed gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 8, 2023.

Pamela Sneed is a New York–based poet, performer, and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (Holt, 1998), KONG and Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009), Sweet Dreams (Belladonna*, 2018), and Funeral Diva, published by City Lights in Oct 2020. Funeral Diva was featured in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, Artnet, and...

SA Smythe

Writer, Artist, and Assistant Professor of Black European Cultural Studies in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA
SA Smythe gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 13, 2018.

SA Smythe is a blktrans nonbinary theorist, multi-instrumentalist, transmedia storyteller, and educator currently based in Tkaronto and Rome. Smythe’s antecartographic practice conjures black belonging and is concerned with the thrival of our relations beyond every border. They weave blktrans poetics, performance, light sculptures, sound composition, photography, and found footage/archival ephemera. Smythe’s transmedia work has been featured...

Mary Ann Smart

ARC Fellow, Musicologist, and Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Smart was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 - she was chosen in the Faculty fellow category.

Mary Ann Smart's research has focused on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. Her first book, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera(link is external) (2004), drew on textual sources (treatises on acting, staging manuals) and musical evidence to...

Sunny A. Smith

Dean of Fine Arts and Professor of Sculpture at CCA
Sunny A. Smith was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Situated Symposium at the Arts Research Center on October 10, 2011.

Sunny A. Smith (they/them) is a queer trans* non-binary artist, time traveler, and practical animist based in Yelamu and Huchiun a.k.a. the San Francisco Bay Area, on unceded Ohlone territory.

Smith has presented their work at museums such as SFMOMA, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Arts Club of Chicago, and S!GNAL Center for Contemporary Art, P.S.1/MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, MASS MoCA, and...

Patricia Smith

ARC Fellow, Poet, Spoken-Word Performer, Playwright, Author, Writing Teacher, and Former Journalist.
Patricia Smith was an ARC Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Spring 2020.

Patricia Smith is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Poetry Foundation, and a 2022 inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of nine books of poetry, includingUnshuttered (Feb 2023);Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the...

Daniel Leeman Smith

Director, Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer, and Program Manager of NYU's Creative Career Hub
Daniel Leeman Smith gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar/Director Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 10, 2024. Daniel Leeman Smith is a proud two-spirit citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is a New York City based director, playwright, dramaturg, producer, and theatre educator whose work is positioned at the intersection of art, education, community, and activism, focusing on Native joy.

Recent credits include Stories of the Land (Dramaturg, Long Wharf Theatre), Chicago: Pigeon (Dramaturg, New Native Play Festival, Yale Indigenous Performing...

Henriette Slorer Jacobsen

Dancer and Professor at the Norwegian Theatre Academy
Henriette Slorer Jacobsen was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Henriette Slorer Jacobsen is a Norwegian dancer. She was educated at Den Norske Opera's Ballettskole and the Norwegian Academy of Ballet. Later, she was employed as an aspirant at the National Ballet and has worked freelance in Oslo with, among others, Lise Eger and Odd Johan Fritzøe, and she has appeared in the short film Exit by Marit Schade Ødegaard. From 1996 she was employed...

Shayna Silverstein

Scholar, Artist, and Associate professorof Performance Studies & Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University
Shayna Silverstein gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020.

Shayna Silverstein is an associate professor in the Department of Performance Studies and a faculty member of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Northwestern University. Her teaching and scholarship broadly examine the politics and aesthetics of sound, movement, and performance in contemporary SWANA/Middle Eastern cultural production.

Silverstein's first book, Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria, will be...

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, and was an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of...

Solmaz Sharif

Poet and Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Solmaz Sharif gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 22, 2024.

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New...