Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Samara Smith, an interdisciplinary artist whose participatory documentary projects transform storytelling into shared public experience through social practice, emerging technology, and community engagement.
Samara Smith
Samara Smith
Samara Smith is an interdisciplinary artist creating participatory documentary projects that rethink storytelling as shared, lived experience. Working across social practice, public space, and emerging technology, she invites audiences to become active participants, blurring distinctions between storyteller, subject, and viewer. Her projects unfold in parks, streets, and civic spaces, engaging place as a site of memory and exchange. Her VR documentary Virtual Aquapolis, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities grants, explores ecological change in New York Harbor. Smith has exhibited widely, worked in documentary film, and teaches at SUNY Old Westbury, where she co-founded the Media Innovation Center.
