Statement
Smith is an expert in art, entertainer, emcee, improvisational stage satirist, author, etcetera having published thrice as a Master Beadweaver and teaching internationally preceding academic training at University of California, Davis and UC Santa Cruz. For 2021 Smith apprenticed to Master eco-artist Newton Harrison pitting billionaires against one another while preparing for his 2024 Getty retrospective. Smith specializes in economies of intangible value and is mentored by masters in the performance and visual arts, arts professions, business development, bicycles, dancing, clowning and great thinking. For the 2023 – 2024 academic year Smith was a doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Davis teaching Introduction to Performance and Digital Media and after passing the first year exam left the program to focus on her daughter, bubbles, and Santa Cruz, California.

Photograph by Carolyn Klein Lagatutta