Books by Stephanie Smith

Socially engaged art, by means of its transformative practice, is shaping today's institutions and the very culture of now. This volume focuses on how artists and others have worked with, within, and sometimes in opposition to large Chicago institutions, such as public schools, universities, libraries, archives, museums, and other civic bodies.

Explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. This title offers the survey of the artist-orchestrated meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with the culture of the moment.

This catalogue documents the projects the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art commissioned Mark Dion, Peter Fend and Dan Peterman to explore the interrelationships between humans and a specific group of sites: a museum building, a river landscape and a university campus.