Pamela Sneed
Pamela Sneed is a poet, performer, visual artist, and art critic. She is the author of Funeral Diva (City Lights, 2020). Funeral Diva won the Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award. 2021 She teaches across disciplines in Columbia Universities School of the Arts, MFA in Visual Artist. She is currently touring with her one woman show and band, A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton.
Many of us are disheartened, fearful and angry given this current regime
I tried to think of work that could inspire, rally, and provide a way forward.
I turned to poets, visual artists, critics, some colleagues, some co-conspirators,
friends, activists that I admire and consider beacons in their communities.
In this painting show that is part installation and sculpture show titled, unobservable scavenger, there are plenty of places to enter, walk around, retrace, read, look up and then down.
Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, writer, performer and visual artist. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and a chaplet, Gift by Belladonna. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out and Bomb. She appears in Nikki Giovanni's, "The One Hundred Best African American Poems."
When I teach students writing or when I go around to visit schools as a poet and performer, I often ask students to look around the room and to imagine being able to read and access literature as diverse as the people in the room. I ask them to imagine stories from every different background, continent, experience, age, gender, race, and class.
Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, writer, performer and visual artist. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and a chaplet, Gift by Belladonna. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out and Bomb. She appears in Nikki Giovanni's, "The One Hundred Best African American Poems."