Visual Arts

Sunny A. Smith

Dean of Fine Arts and Professor of Sculpture at CCA

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 The Tang Museum. Smith has lectured at art schools and research universities internationally, as well as at MOMA, the Whitney...

Situated: Sunny A. Smith

October 10, 2011
Sunny A. Smith
1) What are you most looking forward to from this gathering? I am most looking forward to seeing the same set of things using a different set of lenses. 2) What are the top five lessons you want to share to fellow artists and community leaders about the kind of work you do? Most likely no one will encourage you to do the most important work, because it hasn’t been done yet and is literally unthinkable. If your idea feels awkward at first, it may mean that it is especially worth pursuing. The craft world and the social practice world are both relatives of art, like distant cousins who don’t...

Kim Shuck

Poet, Author, Weaver, and Bead Worker

Kim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale's. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand, keys, pen and notebook and cats cradle string at all times.

Shuck is widely...

Tiffany Shlaine

Filmmaker, Artist, and Author

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker,bestselling author, and ...

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College

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 Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2013-2021). Sholette holds a PhD in History and Memory Studies from the University of...

Edward Shanken

Art Historian and Professor of Digital Art and New Media at UC Santa Cruz

Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Professor at UC Santa Cruz, where he has served as Director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program. Prior academic posts include: Associate Professor, Digital + Media MFA program at RISD; Associate Professor, DXARTS Ph.D. program at University of Washington; Universitair Docent, New Media MA program, University of Amsterdam; Executive Director, Information Science + Information Studies, Duke University. Fellowships...

Sanjit Sethi

Artist, Writer, Curator, and President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Sanjit Sethi (he/him) is currently President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has over two decades of experience as a cultural leader. Sethi’s previous positions include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, at California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute.

As an artist, writer and curator, Sethi’s work has spanned different media and geographies. Past works include the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance; Richmond Voting...

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Artist, Writer, Curator, and Co-Founder of the Raqs Media Collective

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is co-founder, along with Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi, of the Raqs Media Collective. Since its inception in 1992, the members of the Collective have worked in a wide range of forms and formats. In their words, “they create installations, make videos, photographs, print and online works, play with archival traces, make exhibitions and art interventions in public spaces, write essays, enact lecture-performances, engage with pedagogical procedures, edit books, design events, and...

Adrien Segal

Artist, Furniture-Maker, and Sculptor

Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007, and is published in several books and academic journals. She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the City of Homer, Alaska, the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.

In 2022 Adrien was the US-UK Fulbright Scholar with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the...

Alex Saum-Pascual

ARC Fellow, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley

Alex Saum-Pascual is a (digital) poet and professor. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being featured in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Digital Humanities Quarterly,...