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Denny Smith

Education

EFA - Yes
BFA - Yes
MFA/MBA - School of Hard Knocks, see below

Employment

A list of jobs for which I have been paid:

draftsman
car hop
common laborer
trashman
burr bench operator
jeweler
leather crafter
humane officer
retail clerk
teacher
curator
sole proprietor
framer
writer
lecturer
designer
director
president
salesman
performance artist
photographer
registrar
historian
preparator
art consultant
field hand
artist

It had been my intent to be an artist who teaches. After art school I found too many art teachers in line for too few jobs. Substitute teaching knocked all my fresh idealism out of me.

Through a grant-supported on-the-job training program I served as a curator for a small city art museum for 4 years. This was my MFA.

With a personal investment of many thousands of dollars, I owned and managed an art gallery/art services business for 16 years. This was my MBA and my lessons in fairness and betrayal. It was a sobering experience.

Eventually I went to work for someone else who promised to pay me properly. That never occured and after 7 years I quit.

My heart decided it had other plans for me, so now I draw in my studio and work three or four part-time jobs to support my life and my art.

Exhibitions & Awards

2007 So far, a couple
2006 About a dozen
2005 Half a dozen
2004 Three or four
2003 A couple
2000 I mean, really, who cares?


If you want to see my properly annotated resume, drop me an e-mail.

Don’t even think about stealing my images. New York State has a nice copyright law that protects artists.
All rights reserved by the artist, Allen Crittenden (Denny) Smith, 2006.