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) 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.