Artist Profile: Harold D Smith Jr

Harold D Smith Jr

1118 N 14th St
Kansas City, KS 66102

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A Kansas City based visual artist whose collected work includes painting, collage, mixed media, performance, video, sound, and assemblage. His work focuses on the complexity of black masculinity in America by exploring the simultaneously complementary and contradictory narratives that black men in America must navigate in order to survive. Harold is a retired teacher of 36 years (33 - Computer Science, 2 - Art). He received 2 Teacher of the Year Awards, one as a computer teacher and one as an art teacher. Harold earned an A.A. from Kansas City Kansas Community College, B.S. from Union College, M.A.T. from Webster University. His work is included in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Church. Harold has attended MacDowell and Art Omi Residencies and has received a Pollock Krasner Grant and a Charlotte Street Visual Artists Award Grant..