Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith grew up on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and traveled around the Pacific Northwest and California with her father, who was a horse trader. Smith decided she wanted to be an artist after watching a film on the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. She received an Associate of Arts Degree at Olympic College in Bremerton Washington and a BA in Art Education at Framingham State College, Massachusetts. She later graduated with a Masters degree in art from the University of New Mexico.

Smith has had over 100 solo exhibits in the past 40 years and has done printmaking projects nationwide. Over that same time, she has organized and/or curated over 30 Native exhibitions, lectured extensively, and completed several collaborative public art works in Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle. She has received numerous awards including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant, the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the College Art Association Women’s Award and the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts along with four honorary doctorates. Her work can be found in collections throughout the United States, Europe, and South America.

For further information and images access the artist's website:

http://jaunequick-to-seesmith.com

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