Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists
Faculty
The ITI faculty offer a wide variety of approaches to the
written and visual arts. All are working contemporary artists who
publish and exhibit their work in national and international
contexts. Our faculty are dedicated to innovative approaches and
traditions that value psychologically, culturally and politically
engaged work.
Tisa Bryant
Faculty & Fellows 2018
Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence, a collection of
fiction-essays on black presences in film, literature and visual
arts, and co-editor of the cross-referenced literary journal, The
Encyclopedia Project, which released its final book, Encyclopedia
Vol. 3 L-Z, in Fall 2017. She was a commissioned writer/archival
researcher for Radio Imagination, a year-long Los Angeles
celebration of science fiction writer Octavia Butler, sponsored by
Los Angeles-based arts organization, Clockshop, in collaboration
with the Huntington Library in Pasadena, where Butler’s
papers are held. In addition to recent performances and talks with
film, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Body Forms: Queer
Writing and the Essay, Flesh, Lana Turner, Letters to the Future:
Black WOMEN/ Radical WRITING, and in exhibition catalogs for
Cauleen Smith, Sam Durant, Wura-Natasha Ogunji and MADE IN L.A.:
2018. She is working on The Curator, a novel of Black female
subjectivity and imagined cinema, and on Residual, writings on
grief, longing, desire and archival research, forthcoming from
Nightboat Books. She is Director of the Creative Writing Program at
CalArts, where she teaches fiction, nonfiction, and experimental
forms. She lives in Los Angeles.
