Sarah Stefana Smith (she/they) uses methods of installation, textile-based sculpture, and photography to explore abstraction, infrastructure, and materiality. Drawing largely on what Smith calls barrier materials—deer, bird, safety netting, chicken wire, and fishing line—they comment on boundaries between humans and species, lines of demarcation around difference—race, gender, sexuality, and how modes of difference are used to constitute and congeal belonging. Smith recontextualizes material and matter, and the rendering of difference to consider relation and non-relation between human and species. Smith has had solo exhibitions at Hampshire College Gallery of Art (MA), Burlington City Arts (VT), and VisArts (MD). Smith has received artist grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Puffin Foundation, and Ontario Arts Council; and held residencies with MASS MoCA, University of Pittsburgh the Creatives Project with the Center for Humanities, and the Vermont Studio Center. Sarah has published writing in the Drain: Journal of Art and Culture, Bmore Magazine, Journal of Women & Performance (2018), The Black Scholar (2019), and Handbook on Race in the Arts in Education (2018) to name a few. Smith received their Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and their MFA from Goddard College. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts.