Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

Assistant Professor of Socially Engaged Art, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies

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Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Assistant Professor of Socially Engaged Art at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, is a poet-artist whose recent works include the durational site contemplation Lost in Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee (2018) and its resultant intervention series Counter-Ruin (2018) in Berlin (GE); the marionette film Night Herons (2021) co-authored with Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska; the public memorial project Esther’s Willow (2020-ongoing) in Chrzanów (PL) with Katarzyna Sala and Marta Sala; a collective walk and sonic archive along the Nooksack River بيان الصعود إلى السماء Flight Manifesto (in-progress) with Palestinian sound artist Dirar Kalash. He is an editor at the Jewish arts and politics journal Protocols, a PhD candidate at the School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, and holds fine arts degrees from Pratt Institute and Brown University.