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Sable Elyse Smith

Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator based in New York. Smith works in photography, neon, text, appropriated imagery, sculpture, and video installation connecting language, violence, and pop culture with autobiographical subject matter. In 2018, Smith was an Artist-in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her work was first featured at several areas such as MoMA ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia, MIT list visual arts center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other places. The artist lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, and New York City. She has been an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University since 2020.

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July 2026

Dear Zeelie: A Letter in Response to A sonata to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire

Jessica Lynne

Cultural theorist and critic, Jessica Lynn, pens an intimate letter to Session artist Zeelie Brown in reflection of their Recess project.

February 2026

Take Me Where I Need To Go: On Portals, Ancestral Intelligence, and Black Continuums...

Daria S. Harper

Writer and cultural producer Daria Simone Harper reflects on Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

January 2026

Freedom Time Meditation: Cartographies of Release

Neta Bomani

Artist and educator Neta Bomani offers a guided meditation on FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls