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ABOUT | Established in May, 2010, A Smith Gallery exhibits the work of both amateur and professional photographers through juried and invitational online exhibitions.
Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully are the Gallery Directors.
Amanda Smith is the founder and co-director of A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas. She has been a photographer for over thirty-five years as well as a Certified Public Accountant. She used both her knowledge of photography and business skills to create the gallery fifteen years ago. Amanda has been a champion of photography, photographers and the creative potential of the photographic process through over 200 juried and curated exhibitions in the gallery and online. She has also been a juror for numerous outside organizations, including All About Photo, Analogue Forever, Dodho Magazine, Lamar University Alumni Art Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, International Photography Hall of Fame, American Society of Photographers and Critical Mass.
Amanda’s personal photographic work began in the darkroom, working with both traditional and alternative processes. Amanda now creates her personal work digitally with various analog enhancements. Her images have been selected for numerous juried and group exhibitions, including most recently an honorable mention in the 25th Julia Margaret Cameron awards. Her work is in several collections, including The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, Concordia University, Austin and numerous private collections. To see Amanda’s personal work, www.asmithartist.com
Kevin a photographer, designer, writer, and artist. He has over thirty-five years of experience as a landscape designer, furniture designer, fine art painter, and photographer. Kevin has taught workshops on various aspects of art and photography for over twelve years. He has curated and installed hundreds of exhibitions for the gallery and has been a juror for numerous calls-for-entry for the gallery, local organizations, as well as international exhibitions including All About Photo, High and Dry Texas Tech University Photography Exhibition, Analogue Forever, Dodho Magazine, Lamar University Alumni Art Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame, and Critical Mass. He was a past president of ARTJC, a non-profit organization of local art galleries. Kevin was an art consultant to and a founder of The Cabinet Oak Project, a juried art exhibition in partnership with The Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. Kevin also conducts portfolio reviews and mentors individual photographers as well as writing about photography and art.
GALLERY MISSION STATEMENT | As a fine art photography online gallery, A Smith Gallery’s mission is to promote the photographic arts through exhibitions, workshops and the facilitating of an active vibrant community of photographers. We celebrate photography in all its manifestations, analog, digital and alternative. Creativity is encouraged.
BIG BLUE | “World Cyanotype Day was started in 2015 by Judy Sherrod. Judy passed away a few years later. She was a true force of nature; an instigator, a mobilizer and a really good friend to many, many photographers. Judy was an alternative process photographer. She built big pinhole cameras that she and S Gayle Stevens used to make some truly astounding work. Judy was also the founder of the alternative photography group Shootapalooza. World Cyanotype Day is an offshoot and baby of the photographers of Shootapalooza. However, since its creation it has become a worldwide event.
The true genesis of WCD occurred over a few beers one evening in A Smith Gallery while having a conversation about the making of The World’s Largest Cyanotype in September of 2015. Judy had previously decided that A Smith Gallery, with the help of the members of Shootapalooza and the citizens of Johnson City, should sponsor the creation of The World’s Largest Cyanotype — It was magnificent at ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. Big Blue unofficially held the record for two years.
Judy was musing over the fact that there was a World Pinhole Day — so why couldn’t there be a World Cyanotype Day? That same evening, sitting in her famous Airstream Travel trailer, she acquired the domain name and shortly thereafter turned folks on, all over the planet, to the fun and magic of the cyanotype process. Thanks Judy.”
Kevin Tully, 2020
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GALLERY EMAIL LIST | Subscribe to the A Smith Gallery email list by following this link or emailing amanda@asmithgallery.com. Emails contain announcements and updates on call for entries, exhibitions, workshops and blog posts.
GALLERY MAILING ADDRESS | A Smith Gallery, P O Box 175, Johnson City, TX 78636.
GALLERY EMAIL | kevin@asmithgallery.com or amanda@asmithgallery.com
GALLERY RECEPTIONS | Monthly receptions, GalleryTalk, are typically scheduled the last Saturday of each month at 3pm. GalleryTalk receptions are virtual and are archived in the Blog section of the website. This schedule could vary due to circumstances. Please check the website for times and dates.
COPYRIGHT | All images on this website are copyright of the individual photographer. All rights reserved.
