Uprooted: race, public housing, and the archaeology of four lost New Orleans neighborhoods

Abstract

Matt Smith is an artist. He is Professor of Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack University of the Arts in Stockholm and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. He holds a PhD from the University of Brighton entitled “Making Things perfectly Queer: Art’s Use of Craft to Signify LGBT Identities.” His artistic practice comprises museum interventions and solo exhibitions have included Queering the Museum, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2010), Flux: Parian Unpacked at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2018) and Losing Venus at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (2020).