“I had the sincere pleasure of managing Susannah during her time at Blueboard and can't recommend her highly enough. From bringing an expert and balanced approach to content creation that enabled us to build the Blueboard blog into an organic traffic machine, to staying outcome-focused and thinking not just about content creation but content *impact* and distribution, to leveling-up our content production processes to set everyone up for success from freelancers to internal contributors, to her true commitment to serving our customers and bringing the voice of customer to life—Susannah is an extremely adept content marketing leader. She's able to both see the big picture and drive content strategy as well as dive into the details, roll up her sleeves and get things down—all while providing visibility and maintaining alignment. Beyond her stellar creative, technical, and project management skills, Susannah is open and curious, and strives to create connections—not just between herself and others—but more generally in shared spaces. She is an active listener, thoughtful communicator, and someone who cares deeply about other humans. Susannah would be an asset to any marketing team. Don't let this one get away.”
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Volunteer
Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA)
- 2 years 11 months
The mission of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives is to preserve the lesbian history of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and make it accessible to the public.
https://www.bayarealesbianarchives.org/
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Volunteer Instagram Content Manager; Guest Editor
Sinister Wisdom Inc
- 6 years
Arts and Culture
Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom is an intersectional lesbian literary and art journal that publishes four issues each year.
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Film Festival Volunteer
Frameline
- 4 years 1 month
Arts and Culture
Frameline's mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline's programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world.
I've supported Frameline over the years as an attendee and volunteer for their annual film festival.
More about the Frameline Film Festival:
Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest and most widely recognized LGBTQ+…Frameline's mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline's programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world.
I've supported Frameline over the years as an attendee and volunteer for their annual film festival.
More about the Frameline Film Festival:
Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest and most widely recognized LGBTQ+ film exhibition event in the world. As a community event with an annual attendance of 60,000+, the Festival is the most prominent and well-attended LGBTQ+ arts program in the Bay Area. Frameline also presents year-round exhibitions, including Frameline Encore, a free film series highlighting diverse, socially relevant works. Year-round programs also include members-only sneak previews and special events, as well as special screenings and events featuring directors, actors and other queer media icons.
Publications
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You Work Where?! True Tales from International Orange
Glance magazine, California College of the Arts
This piece details my experience on-site at Fort Point National Park (near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge) as the Visitor Engagement Manager for the site-specific exhibition, International Orange. The exhibition was a FOR-SITE Foundation project that ran May 25 – October 28, 2012.
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, International Orange — named in honor of the unique paint color of the span — offered fresh perspectives on an enduring landmark. This exhibition…This piece details my experience on-site at Fort Point National Park (near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge) as the Visitor Engagement Manager for the site-specific exhibition, International Orange. The exhibition was a FOR-SITE Foundation project that ran May 25 – October 28, 2012.
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, International Orange — named in honor of the unique paint color of the span — offered fresh perspectives on an enduring landmark. This exhibition at Fort Point presented new work by contemporary artists responding to the bridge as icon, historic structure, and conceptual inspiration.
Artists included:
Anandamayi Arnold
Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood
Bill Fontana
Andy Freeberg
Doug Hall
Courtney Lain
David Liittschwager
Abelardo Morell
Cornelia Parker
Kate Pocrass
Jeannene Przyblyski
Allison Smith
Stephanie Syjuco
Camille Utterback
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The Mediated Performance
Give Them The Picture, California College of the Arts
This essay examined the at times contentious debate between conceptual artists regarding video technology and documentation, and its place in their time-based practices in the 1970s. It also addresses the possibility in the language of video and television to extend performance art to a dispersed and mass audience.
This essay appeared in Give Them the Picture, an anthology of writings that originally appeared in La Mamelle and ART COM magazines, that I co-edited with Liz Glass and Julian…This essay examined the at times contentious debate between conceptual artists regarding video technology and documentation, and its place in their time-based practices in the 1970s. It also addresses the possibility in the language of video and television to extend performance art to a dispersed and mass audience.
This essay appeared in Give Them the Picture, an anthology of writings that originally appeared in La Mamelle and ART COM magazines, that I co-edited with Liz Glass and Julian Myers-Szupinska. It accompanied my graduate thesis exhibition God Only Knows Who the Audience Is: Performance, Video, and Television Through the Lens of La Mamelle/ART COM, staged at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in 2011. Founded by Carl Loeffler with Trudi Richards in 1975, La Mamelle— which later became known as ART COM—was a publishing body and San Francisco gallery space that focused on performance, non-object-based art, and, later, media- based works.
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Projects
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Empowered: Envisioning Workplaces That Work
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What does it take to radically transform and disrupt our workplaces? How can we bring about the changes we need and wish to see in the physical and virtual spaces we spend over a third of our waking lives in?
Empowered: Envisioning Workplaces That Work explores what thriving, diverse, and innovative workplaces look and feel like, and what makes them tick. Spoiler alert: it’s the people.
In conversation with the folks doing this vital work, join me, Susannah Magers, a content…What does it take to radically transform and disrupt our workplaces? How can we bring about the changes we need and wish to see in the physical and virtual spaces we spend over a third of our waking lives in?
Empowered: Envisioning Workplaces That Work explores what thriving, diverse, and innovative workplaces look and feel like, and what makes them tick. Spoiler alert: it’s the people.
In conversation with the folks doing this vital work, join me, Susannah Magers, a content creator at Envoy, as we engage in timely discussions about the workplace experience and celebrate those who challenge the status quo in all aspects of the contemporary workplace through the lens of the all-important human elements.
Hear workplace experience leaders, creative problem solvers, and other cultural producers reveal how they create the workplaces they want to see in the world: their wins, pain points, and all the moments in between.
We all have a story to tell. Find more information on each episode of Empowered in the show notes. You can also read episode recaps on the Envoy blog, as well as discover more resources on how to challenge the status quo in your workplace. Stay tuned for season two!Other creatorsSee project -
Barbara Hammer: Cinema of Intimacy (curated film program at Roxie Theater on 4/25/19)
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Co-curated by Susannah Magers and Tanya Zimbardo, Barbara Hammer: Cinema of Intimacy was a one-night tribute screening of film legend Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) that highlighted a selection of the artist’s early films rooted in the Bay Area.
Shot at the Roxie Theater, the beginning of Audience (1982) features Hammer’s fun, flirtatious, and thoughtful interviews with the audience line before her tribute screening as part of that year’s San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film…Co-curated by Susannah Magers and Tanya Zimbardo, Barbara Hammer: Cinema of Intimacy was a one-night tribute screening of film legend Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) that highlighted a selection of the artist’s early films rooted in the Bay Area.
Shot at the Roxie Theater, the beginning of Audience (1982) features Hammer’s fun, flirtatious, and thoughtful interviews with the audience line before her tribute screening as part of that year’s San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Recognized as one of the first lesbian experimental filmmakers, Hammer explicitly championed the perspective of women and the visibility of the lesbian and queer communities. As she observed, her work in the 1970s was ‘proselytizing my newfound place, my lesbian homeland.’ In the witty Superdyke (1975), Hammer and an army of women take to the streets of San Francisco. The sensual and playful Dyketactics (1974) and Psychosynthesis (1975) feature Hammer as both director and subject. Hammer invites the audience into her films through exploring the connection of sight and touch, saying ‘it is a camera that goes to bed with me and another: a cinema of intimacy.’ This program celebrates a body of Hammer’s work that epitomizes her joyful, unabashed experimental approach to self-representation.
Canyon Cinema’s public programs are generously supported by the George Lucas Family Foundation, the Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts Program.Other creatorsSee project -
The Exquisite Mile: Pollination as Pathway
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As Deputy Director and Curator at Rochester Art Center (RAC), I collaborated on The Exquisite Mile in partnership with Rochester Downtown Alliance (RDA), artist Sarah Beadle, and RAC's teen art group, Tastes Like Paint (TLP). The project was guided by the goal to connect the Rochester, MN community with a participatory activity and semi-permanent public art work in downtown Rochester. Rochester’s main industry revolves around the Mayo Clinic, marked by millions of people constantly coming and…
As Deputy Director and Curator at Rochester Art Center (RAC), I collaborated on The Exquisite Mile in partnership with Rochester Downtown Alliance (RDA), artist Sarah Beadle, and RAC's teen art group, Tastes Like Paint (TLP). The project was guided by the goal to connect the Rochester, MN community with a participatory activity and semi-permanent public art work in downtown Rochester. Rochester’s main industry revolves around the Mayo Clinic, marked by millions of people constantly coming and going, whether employed there or receiving care. This relationship can be read symbolically as one of pollen and pollinators, and led us to consider a central question: how do the migrating pollinators of a place experience it?
The Exquisite Mile evokes the art historical concept of The Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative game associated with the Surrealist art movement in the 1920s. Incorporating these ideas of chance, and the combination of disparate visual elements, the members of TLP acted as artist researchers, collecting data to inform the content and colors of eight color postcards. Conducted within a one-mile radius of downtown Rochester, this research focused on observations of pathways, systems, and sites, monumental and banal alike, unique to their experience of the city. Translated onto postcards, with representative color and location coordinates on one side and information about what the color represents on the other, the information engages the idea of downtown Rochester as a still-wild civic space, shaped by those who move through it.
The collaboration culminated with a public participatory painting event on a wall facing Mayo Park, chosen as a crucial point of connection along the Zumbro River. Choosing a postcard that they responded to, participants could then contribute using the corresponding paint colors such as Cemetery Geranium Red, and Food Court Table Cyan. The postcards also act as pollinators to all who take, send, and receive them.
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