Suzanne Hagood, who received her MFA from Texas Tech University in 2003, began teaching at Ohio University as a Visiting Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Practice in the fall of 2008. Hagood has been a Visiting Artist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Auburn University. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including Knoxville, Dallas, Houston, Santa Fe and New York City. Hagood’s has been reviewed in Art Papers Magazine, received a Jules Collins Smith Art Museum grant and an Alabama Power Foundation Arts and Culture grant for her community-based artwork.

Demonstrating transitory subjects in a variety of formats, Hagood produces “performance, as ritual or persona; video, as repetition; and installation and collaboration, as structure for discourse.” Hagood, who also organizes and directs collaborative events, recently completed a six-month residency at the Coleman Center for the Arts in York Alabama, where she produced a public and community based sound and video installation/event, calling upon local residents for collaboration and shared experience to explore the ongoing transitions and Black Belt heritage of York Alabama.