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Writing - Sarah E.K. Smith

Writing

Books
Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America. University of British Columbia Press, 2025.

General Idea: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute/Institut de l’art du Canada, 2016.

Edited Collection
Museum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape Global Engagement. Rowman & Littlefield and the American Alliance of Museums, 2023. Co-editor with Sascha Priewe.

Special Issues of Scholarly Journals (Guest Editor)
“Curating Cultural Diplomacy,” a Special Issue of Journal of Curatorial Studies, 5, no. 3 (October 2016). Co-editor with Lynda Jessup.

“Craft, Creative Work and Networks of Indigenous Knowledge,” a Special Issue of Cahiers métiers d’art ::: Craft Journal, 5, no. 1 (2011). Co-editor with Alena Buis.

Peer Reviewed Journals
“Québec on the World Stage: Placing Provincial Cultural Diplomacy in Context.” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.2024.2442954. Co-authored with Alexandre Couture Gagnon.

“The Imagined Globe: Remapping the World Through Public Diplomacy at the Asia Society.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 34 (2021): 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09387-z. Co-authored with Peggy Levitt and Rebecca Selch.

“Unsettling Canadian Heritage: Decolonial Aesthetics in Canadian Video and Performance Art,” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes, 52, no.1 (Winter 2018): 306-341. Co-authored with Carla Taunton. Awarded Prize for the Best Article Published in the Journal of Canadian Studies, 2020.

“The Permeable Border: Examining Responses to North American Integration in Video Art,” Journal of Comparative American Studies, 13, no.1-2 (June 2015): 91-106.

“Making sense of the ‘endless play of signs’ in the work of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 30-31 (Fall 2013/Spring 2014): 219-235.

“‘More a Diplomatic than an Esthetic Event:’ Canada, Brazil, and Cultural Brokering in the São Paulo Biennial and ‘Isumavut,’” Journal of Canadian Studies, 47, no. 2 (2014): 1-29. Co-authored with Kirsty Robertson, Stephanie Anderson, Elizabeth Diggon and Ahlia Moussa.

“Sanaugait in Nunavut,” Journal of Modern Craft, 6, no. 2 (2013): 187-204. Co-authored with Alena Buis.

“Thread, Fur and Hair: Preserving Inuit Histories through Textiles,” Cahiers métiers d’art ::: Craft Journal, 4, no. 2 (2011): 124-132. Co-authored with Alena Buis.

“The Little Black School House: Revealing the Histories of Canada’s Segregated Schools – A Conversation with Sylvia Hamilton,” Canadian Review of American Studies, 41, no. 1 (2011): 63-73. Co-authored with Brianne Howard.

Book Chapters
“The Global Work of Museum Diplomacy.” In Museum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape Global Engagement, edited by Sarah E.K. Smith and Sascha Priewe, pp. 1-20. American Alliance of Museums and Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. Co-authored with Sascha Priewe.

“Exhibiting Mexican Art in Canada: Histories of Cultural Exchange and Diplomacy in the Mid-Twentieth Century.” In Latin America Made in Canada, edited by Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas and Alena Robin. Lugar Común Editorial/Colección ALTER., 2022.

“Institutions.” In The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture, edited by A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, and Catherine Zuromskis, 355-372.Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2021.

“Bridging the 49th Parallel: A Case Study in Art as Cultural Diplomacy.” In Canada’s Public Diplomacy, edited by Nicholas J. Cull and Michael K. Hawes,95-125. Palgrave Macmillan, Series in Global Public Diplomacy, 2020.

“Visualizing the ‘New’ North American Landscape.” In Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada, edited by Lynda Jessup, Erin Morton, and Kirsty Robertson, 130-149. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.

“Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America.” In Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border, eds. D.F. Stirrup and Gillian Roberts, 187-205. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2013.

“On the Move: Settlement, Transgression and Artistic Intervention.” In Habitus of the ’Hood, eds. Hans Skott-Myhre and Chris Richardson, 69-94. Bristol; Chicago: Intellect, 2012. Co-authored with Erin Morton.

Book Reviews
“‘Working in the Space Between’: Understanding Collaboration in Contemporary Artistic Practice,” Review of The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context by Grant Kester, Reviews in Cultural Theory, 3, no. 2 (November 2012).

“Review of Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada edited by J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson,” Public, 43 (2011): 158-160.

“Review of Condé and Beveridge: Class Works edited by Bruce Barber,” Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review, 35, no. 1 (2010): 92-95.

Exhibition Reviews
“Sakàhan: International Indigenous Art,” Journal of Modern Craft, 7, no. 2 (2014): 219-222.

Exhibition Catalogues
“Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor.” In The Air of the Now and Gone, edited by Kirsty Robertson, Sarah E.K. Smith, Heather Anderson and Sandra Dyck. Ottawa, ON: Carleton University Art Gallery, 2025. Co-authored with Kirsty Robertson.

“If the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” In From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures, edited by Cassandra Getty. London, ON: Museum London, 2022. Co-authored with Kirsty Robertson.

“The Future Was Now: Buckminster Fuller and Creative Practice.” In From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures, edited by Cassandra Getty. London, ON: Museum London, 2022. Co-authored with Kirsty Robertson.

“Clive Robertson.” In Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art Across the Pacific, edited by Haema Sivanesan, 78-79. Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2016.

“Bringing Queer Theory into Queer Practice.” In I’m Not Myself At All: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, edited by Sunny Kerr, 22-31. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2015.

“Captured and Controlled: Critiquing Surveillance Through the Camera.” In Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control, edited by Jan Allen, 49-61. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2010.

“Brain Child: Interrogating Contemporary Feminisms.” In Brain Child: Allyson Mitchell, edited by Jocelyn Purdie, 4-15. Kingston, ON: Union Gallery, 2008.

“Made in Taiwan.” In Made in Taiwan: Auriane Sokoloski, edited by Jocelyn Purdie, 6-9. Kingston, ON: Union Gallery, 2007.

Other Published Writings
“Condé and Beveridge’s Art Activism.” Prefix Photo, No. 33 (May 2016): 45-55.

“Shining Light on Adornment.” In All That Sparkles, 2-3. Toronto: ON: The Red Head Gallery, 2013.

“Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Of Labour and Love,” Canadian Art, online edition, 9 February 2012.

With Alena Buis, “Theresie Tungilik: Arts Activist,” Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 2011): 28-32.

Technical Reports
“Between Here and There:” Surveying the Global Work of Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility-Engaged Museums. Western University, 2023. Co-authored by Simge Erdogan-O’Connor, Giada Ferrucci, Renée MacDiarmid, Julia Piccolo, Sascha Priewe, and Sarah E.K. Smith.

Culture In Security: International Cultural Relations as an Enabler of Peace Through EngagementInstitut für Auslandsbeziehungen in partnership with British Council, 2023. Co-authored by Carla Figueira, Avril Joffe, James Perkins, Venka Purushothaman, Sarah E.K. Smith, Odila Triebel, and Cesar Villanueva.

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