Bio

Chelsea Smith (she/her) is an artist, curator and visual arts facilitator based in Kansas City, Kansas/Kaw/Kansa Nation. She holds a BA (Honors) in Ceramics from Camberwell College of Arts in London, UK. She is the recipient of an Artists Now grant from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA and ceramics residency grants at Sanskriti-Kendra in New Delhi, India and Tiapapata Art Centre in Apia, Samoa.

Past curated exhibitions include The Rim of Morning at Open Windows Cooperative in San Francisco, CA and Not Quite Fatal at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO. Most recently she exhibited sculptures in the group exhibition "In Other Words," at the Kansas City Central Library branch. She currently facilitates online programming for neurodiverse and disabled artists at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, CA. Additionally, she is a ceramics instructor at Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center in Overland Park, KS.