Create Whimsical Collages
Jump into a world of fantasy this summer with Hollywood-based visual artistCarmen Smith. Visitors will explore their imaginations and create whimsical landscape collages.
Inspired by tropical urban architecture and her own memories, Carmen Smithincorporates the elements of geometric shapes, lines, color, and space to create a dreamlike imagery. The glowing pools and colorful buildings displayed in her works offer viewers a nuanced and magical perspective of experience, memory, and identity.
About the Artist
Carmen Smith is a visual artist based in Hollywood. She is an Associate Artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, VA, where she was awarded the Academic and Creative Excellence Award. She has participated in over 15 juried shows and fairs, including the 8th Annual All-Media Juried Biennial at the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood in 2017. Smith has been part of several group exhibitions including “The Portfolio Review Series,” Coral Gables Museum, and “Everything Old Is New Again,” Superfine! NYC Art Fair, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include, “Night Swimming," at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, and "Rushing Down," at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. In early 2024, she exhibited a solo collection of 15 paintings at the Imago Cultural Center in South Miami, titled “Color Pools.” Smith is a 2023-2024 recipient of the Broward Cultural Division Artist Grant.
Carmen Smith
Free Arts! Family Days is funded in part by PNC Foundation, and City of Hollywood General Fund Social Service Agency Grant.