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Sue Bell Yank

Sue Bell Yank is a writer, producer, and arts organizer. She currently works as an online education producer for the Oprah Winfrey Network and was formerly the Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum. She graduated from the Masters of Public Art Studies program at USC, focusing on the role of contemporary art in rebuilding efforts after a crisis, focusing on post­-Katrina New Orleans. She has a deep­-seated investment in socially and politically-­engaged art that can be traced to her years as a public school teacher in Lynwood and South Fairfax. She is currently an advisor for the Asian Arts Initiative's Social Practice Lab and the granting organization SPArt, was a curatorial advisor for the Creative Time Living as Form exhibition (2011), and was part of the curatorial team for the 2008 California Biennial. Her writing has been featured in exhibition catalogues, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, the Huffington Post, KCET Artbound, and various arts blogs including her ongoing essay blog entitled Social Practice: Writings about the social in contemporary art. She has been a lecturer at California College of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA, and USC.

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Artists+Institutions Summer Salon Series, 2012. Table setting by Notch. Photo Courtesy Mak Center
Artists + Institutions: Can We Find Common Ground?
Artists David Burns, Sara Daleiden, and Mak Center director Kimberli Meyer speak about the upcoming free public salon, Artists+Institutions: Common Ground, and what drove them to produce such an ambitious dialogical project.
Los Angeles skyline.
Is L.A. the Creative or Anti-Creative City?
Sue Bell Yank, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, and Sarah Schrank sit down to discuss both tired stereotypes and surprising realities about the L.A. art scene.
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