How I became an artist: Sable Elyse Smith
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The artist traces her path toward creating powerful works on America’s relationship between incarceration and capital
Visual artist Sable Elyse Smith on being inspired by the everyday
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Artist Sable Elyse Smith Honored at Queens Museum Gala –
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AUNTSforcamera” Artist-Devised Tour with Sable Elyse Smith :: New
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Coloring Book 19, Contemporary Day Auction, 2023
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Sable Elyse Smith Responds to the Rigged Logic of the US Criminal
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Sable Elyse Smith Reveals the Carceral as Carnivalesque
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Sable Elyse Smith Responds to the Rigged Logic of the US Criminal
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Journal — Different Futures
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Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where It Finally Means Sky
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Sable Elyse Smith: BOLO project
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How I became an artist: Sable Elyse Smith
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Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where It Finally Means Sky