In Memoriam: Cat Frazier, Susan Michod, Joel Snyder, and More Art World Figures

Key facts

• Cat Frazier (1991–2026) ran the 2010s Tumblr page AnimatedText, which showcased text-based GIFs and reached half a million followers.
• Writer and critic Adrian Chen described Frazier as one of the great pop artists of 21st-century internet culture in a New York Times interview.
• Khaled Al Awar (1948–2026) moved from Lebanon to the United States in 1970 and founded Primavera Gallery in Ojai, California.
• Al Awar owned the Ojai Playhouse Theater and received the city's Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts in 2017.
• Walter Kershaw (1940–2026), sometimes called Britain's first street artist, painted unsanctioned murals in England in the 1970s and '80s; his work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Collection of Brazilian Art in São Paulo.
• Susan Michod (1945–2026) was a Pattern and Decoration painter who founded the Chicago women artists' collaborative Artemisia Gallery in 1973.
• Joel Snyder (1940–2026) was among the first US scholars to teach photography history and has photographs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
• Timothy White Eagle (1966–2026) created The Indigo Room (2023), founded Seattle's Coffee Messiah in the 1990s, and collaborated with Adrian Chesser and Taylor Mac.