October 6, 2026
Layla Marcelle visits Dickinson through the Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program.
Layla Marcelle (b. 1986) is an American artist engaged with ceramics, choreography, writing, image-making, object-making, materialism, contradiction, homonyms and other doubles, pedagogy, sci-fi and aesthetics of pleasure. She’s done innovative work with the burgeoning love-intergalac-tech industry and performs irregularly as a hologram of Linda Fox. In 2016 she started an anti-entropy design company with Jacob Raeder called Better Lovers, where they apply contemporary dance training with Modus Operandi, a BA (philosophy) + BFA from Alfred University, and MFA from Simon Fraser University, and training at the SNDO, P.A.R.T.S., and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In 2020, she received a Master’s in ceramics from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
Marcelle visits Dickinson through the Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program. The Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 2009 to complement the mission of the Department of Art & Art History. To date, the program has brought 16 national and international artists to campus to make artwork, engage with students and contribute to the creative culture at Dickinson during six-to eight-week residencies. The program is made possible through the gracious support of Sylvia J. Smith, a Dickinson trustee and member of the class of 1973.
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- Location: Weiss Center for the Arts, Room 235
- Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Cost: Free