Suzanne Snider

Affiliations:

• Adjunct Faculty, Multimedia Storytelling (Performance): In Our Mouths: Recitations, Reenactments and other Live Encounters

About:

Suzanne Snider is a research-based artist and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. Recent projects include sound installation, essays and archive design. In 2012, Snider founded Oral History Summer School (and the companion archive, the Community Library of Voice and Sound) to explore nontraditional applications for collaborative narrative practices. The school's expanding archive currently contains 700-plus life histories, along with a song collection and ambient sound collection centered on Hudson, New York. Snider has worked in the field of oral history for more than 25 years as an educator, interviewer and consultant. She has been invited to run trainings for Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the National Public Housing Museum and the National Library of Kosovo, among others. In 2018, she co-founded the Trauma and Journalism work group with journalist Allison Lichter, funded by the Mellon Foundation and the New School. Prior to her work with adults, she taught movement and art in the NYC public school system and developed arts curriculum for visually impaired students at the New York Institute for Special Education. She is pursuing a master’s in clinical social work with an interest in trauma, traumatic brain injuries and chronic illness.