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Richard Smith

Richard Zane Smith (Born 1955) is active/lives in Oklahoma, Missouri.  Richard Smith is known for Contemporary native american pottery.

Born in 1955 in Augusta Georgia, Richard Zane Smith is a contemporary potter whose pots consist of small hand rolled coils of natural clays inspired by prehistoric corrugated pottery of the Southwest.

Artist Statement:
"My art education began as a child at home in Missouri. In the evenings all five of us kids would gather round listening and drawing quietly while Dad or Mom would read wonderful books to us. Clay excited me from high school and all through my art school years though I enjoyed working with all kinds of natural materials, from leather to stone to wood. During these years, investigating my own native (Wyandot) roots became something of an obsession with me. In 1978, I worked as an art instructor at a Navajo mission school in Arizona. It was there that I was first exposed to native clays, and Anasazi pot sherds. Having a rich yet mixed-blooded heritage has been difficult for me at times to sort things out and it still provides its challenges. But I am actively in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2476 characters.]  Artist bio

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