Members List
All members names are listed alphabetically. To learn more about each member click on their name below. Please scroll down.
Bami Adedoyin, Brooklyn, NY
Mohd Fuad Arif, Malaysia
Megan Bisbee, Alfred, NY
Missy Carr, Washington, DC
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Lara Davis, Providence, RI
Cindy DeFelice, Brockport, NY
Ghen Dennis, Buffalo, NY
Leigh Ann Francis, New Brunswick, NJ
Chifumi Fujisawa, Mosumoto, Japan
Amy Goldberg, Rochester, NY
Bethany Goldpaugh Brown, Kingston, NY
Virva Hepolampi, Helsinki, Finland
James Holland, Southbury, CT and Rochester, NY
Kelly Jacobson, Kansas City, MO
Akil Kirlew, Brooklyn, NY
Caroline Koebel, Buffalo, NY
Jennifer Little, Rochester, NY
Edna Madera, Rochester, NY
Darin Martin, Oakland, CA
Tammy McGovern, Buffalo, NY
Colleen Vera Melisz, Buffalo/Rochester, NY
Toni Mosley, Auckland, New Zealand
Tomoya Murazumi, Kanazawa City, Japan
Akane Nakamori, Kanazawa City, Japan
Stephanie Nolasco, New York, NY
Natasha Pachano, Costa Rica
Warren Peace, Jersey City, NJ
Anjanel Dawn Pinet, Rochester, NY
Mima Simic, Croatia
Joan E. Stoltman, Buffalo, NY
Diane Teramana, Kingston, NY
Angela Tessier Kanazawa City, Japan
Andy Tetzlaff, Kanazawa City, Japan
Matthew Underwood, Boston, MA
Adam Weekley, Buffalo, NY
wolfgrrrl sometimes billijo, Rochester, NY
Walter Wright, Lowell, MA
Ami Yamasaki, Kanazawa City, Japan
Ojima Yukari, Kanazawa City, Japan
Karen Y. Zhang, Beijing, China |
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Sarah Stefana Smith
Photographer | Mixed Media Artist
Sarah Stefana Smith is a Toronto based photographer, mixed media artist and scholar. Receiving the John Pavlis Fellowship Fund for 2010, Sarah will be an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in the summer. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. Sarah has exhibited work in Atlanta, New York and Philadelphia in galleries and non-traditional spaces.
She developed an interest in photography while studying Sociology as a freshman at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. While participating in an intergenerational photography project with middle, high and college students Sarah took part in her first group show, Pictures Tell Our Stories at the High Museum of Art. This would be her first experience working with Sistagraphy a collective of black women photographers based in Atlanta that would later solidify her practice as an image-maker.
Her growth as an artist led her to begin incorporating text and idea based narrative into her work. Having moved away from black & white journalistic styled photography, her recent work is performative and considers notions of place and belonging. Her artistic practice—ranging from mixed media, photography, installation and collage—considers the principles and techniques of cartography to tell stories.
A self-described observer-sojourner her work is heavily influenced by the African Diaspora, embodied knowledge and constructed place. Her practice speaks to the liminal spaces where an image shape-shifts taking on new meaning and interpretation. Her photo-based collage, still images and installation work speak to a multitude of intersecting identities. The crux of her work focuses on the translation of idea and observation into visual bodies of knowledge.
Sarah is a former organizer with the Media Mobilizing Project and twice received recipient of the Art and Change grant from the Leeway Foundation in Philadelpha Pennsylvania.
Currently, she works as a teaching artist and is working on a collage project focused on cultural retention and memory through food. Sarah will begin a PhD program in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the fall.
Self-Portrait
Digital Image
2009 © Sarah Stefana Smith
"I", from series Saltfish Buljol & Bake
Photo-based Collage
2009 © Sarah Stefana Smith
"II", from series Saltfish Buljol & Bake
Photo-based Collage
2009 © Sarah Stefana Smith
"I." from series Door of No Return
Photo-based Collage
2009 © Sarah Stefana Smith
"II" from series Door of No Return
Photo-based Collage
2009 © Sarah Stefana Smith
"Riley" from series We be the space you find
Photo-based Collage
2008 © Sarah Stefana Smith
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