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Bonnie J. Smith
- Art Loving Team
- Jan 29, 2025
- 1 min read
Smith created the award-winning textile installation “Swimming Upstream” that is about her suffering a life-changing injury that confined her at one time to a wheelchair. Having kept searching for answers she prevailed and once secure in her knowledge that she would recover she created the 12-piece “Swimming Upstream” textile series that became not just her story but of others also trying to swim upstream through life. The series has now traveled to the United Kingdom and across the United States and received many awards.
Smith was recipient of the prestigious Leigh Weimer’s Award and Grant 2016 in San Jose, California.
Having curated many exhibits, she conceptualized and curated the successful “Forming Our Lives” exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
Smith’s work has been exhibited at many of the United Nations Headquarters around the globe as well as having her own featured exhibit at the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, U.K. in 2017.
In 2020, Smith also curated and authored the original book “She Votes” containing 113 original artworks by sixty-four artists, that celebrated the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. The catalog is available on amazon.com.
“She Votes, Bonnie J. Smith”
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