Tamika Galanis | |
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Education | College of the Bahamas, Duke University |
Occupation(s) | Multimedia artist and documentarian |
Website | www |
Tamika Galanis is a Black Bahamian multimedia artist and documentarian examining topics of Bahamian identity and culture, tourism, and archival histories. [1] [2]
Galanis earned a BA degree in Liberal Arts from Clayton State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University in 2016. [3] Galanis is the Jon B. Lovelace Fellow for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. [4]
Galanis is an Assistant Professor of Film in the department of film and media studies at Syracuse University, New York. [5]
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