Portrait by David Santilli
Biography
Dr. Micah Salkind is the Deputy Director of The City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism. He manages large grants and strategic artist initiatives for the City, collaborating with the Creative Capital’s largest non-profit cultural institutions as well as its emerging artists, designers, and creative entrepreneurs. He also sings with Collegium Ancora, throws quarterly Dollar Disco parties as one half of Micah Jackson, and is an ongoing collaborator with dancers and scholars in Chicago’s Honey Pot Performance collective. A DJ, sound designer, and curator, Salkind is the author of Do You Remember House? Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds (Oxford University Press).
Contact: micahsalkind@gmail.com