Patty Smith is an artist/printmaker and book artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, including in New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Brooklyn, NY, Paducah, KY, Seoul, Korea, Venice, Italy, Lorca, Spain, Paris France, and Tokyo, Japan. She is included in print and special collections at numerous institutions and libraries such as, the Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Yale University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been an artist-in-residence at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice Italy, the Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY and The Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland. From 2012 to 2017 she collaborated with Claire Fouquet, French Artist/Animator/Filmmaker. Together they produced several prints, artists’ books, animations, films and installations. They have exhibited as collaborators and shared artist residencies in the U.S.A. and abroad ( see collaborative blog). Smith is a Professor Emerita at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia where she was the Coordinator of Printmaking, Director of the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking program and Professor of Fine Arts. She is currently on the board of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. She earned her MA from the Philadelphia College of Art, (now the University of the Arts), studied Japanese woodblock at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo Japan and earned a BA from Immaculata College.  

LINKS

https://wsworkshop.org/collection/on-the-other-side/

Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, Birmingham, AL  

Blog:  https://crowdsandbarriers.com/

https://brandywineworkshopandarchives.org/