Valerie St. Pierre Smith
Designer | Healing Artist | Scholar
PUBLICATIONS
2021 A Pocket Guide to Cultural Appropriation USITT Digital Conference presentation and publication.
2020 Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance: Indigenous Spaces by Drs. Christine Stanlake, Courtney Elkin Mohler and Jaye Darby. Contributing essayist.
HowlRound
2018 The Three Sisters: Lessons on Inspiration, Appropriation, and Design
USITT Costume Commission Digital Archive
2019 Connective Threads: Inspiration, Appropriation and Design in a Global Village pt. 2
2017 Connective Threads: Inspiration, Appropriation and Design in a Global Village
PRESS
CVNC Online
Article, The Ballad, with Pilobolus Dance Theatre
The Washington Post
"The eye-popping gown that Valerie St. Pierre Smith designs for Sarah's night out is an epic event in itself."
- Peter Marks on Antebellum
DC Theatre Scene
"Valerie St. Pierre Smith's costumes, and particularly Sarah's preposterous dress, are great successes."
- Tim Treanor on Antebellum
Curtain Up
"The underlying theme is greed. That’s where the pigs come in...Costume designer,Valerie St. Pierre Smith, the real star here, has dressed Civilization’s pigs in wonderful fat suits with black, trotter-like boxing gloves..."
- Susan Davidson on Civilization: All You Can Eat