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Sydney Summey

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Sydney Summey

Graduate Teaching Associate
she/her

summey.1@osu.edu

Education

  • 2022, BFA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Sydney Summey is a graduate student in the MA program in Art Education. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in photography from The Ohio State University in 2022. During her undergraduate studies, Sydney cultivated her photographic practice as both an expressive medium and a critical tool—one that challenges dominant histories and opens pathways toward social change. Her current research explores Black matriarchal archives and photography as a method, emphasizing the power of Black visual culture and its vast capacity to contain Black futurity. Deeply influenced by Black feminist theorists such as Tina M. Campt, Sydney appreciates grammar that articulates and re-values the Black experience and everyday ways of living. Her work has been exhibited at The Urban Arts Space and continues to be shaped through diverse academic opportunities.

Research Interests

  • Black matriarchal archives
  • Arts-Based Research / Photography as method
  • Black feminist theory