“One of the best aspects for me in visiting VSC is the ability to see artists and their work in the best possible environment, the studio. It always seems as though I learn more from the residents and their work that I can say. It is a great privilege to be admitted into someone’s identity.
I’ve been exceedingly fortunate to be invited many times to VSC as a visiting Artist. I think the first time was in 1994. I also count myself privileged in that the staff at VSC are among my closest, most respected friends. These are artists I look to as role models of how artists should act.”

Ed Smith is a Guggenheim Fellow in Sculpture and Drawing. His work is represented in public and private collections in the United States and abroad. These include The British Museum, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp Belgium, Ministry of the Flemish Community, The Hood Museum, the Davis Museum, Yale University and many more. He has over 35 one person exhibitions and innumerable group exhibitions which include, the Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Caversham Press South Africa, Fleming Museum, Schenectady Museum, The Albright Knox Museum, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum and many others.

His work has been written about and reviewed in the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, The Baltimore Evening Sun, Art News, the Miami Herald, The Albany Times Union, Giornale Dell’Arte, San Francisco Examiner, Art New England and many others.
Currently Associate Professor of Art at Marist College,

Ed Smith has been a Visiting Artist, Lecturer, Artist–in-Residence, Professor and Distinguished Visiting Artist at American University, Bennington College, Bard College, Brandies University, Boston University, Clark University, Dartmouth College, Dia Art Center, Kansas State University, Lacoste School of the Arts in France, New York Studio School, Parsons School of Art, Pratt Institute, Swathmore College, School of Visual Arts, Trumbull College, Yale University, University of New Hampshire, University of Pennsylvania, Vermont Studio Center, and many, many others. Awards and honors include awards for Teaching Excellence, National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, Teaching Excellence Marist College, Ford Foundation Grant, First Alternate Prix de Rome, Fulbright Award, Associate Fellow Trumbull College, Yale University, NY State Council on the Arts and others.

http://www.edsmithfineart.com