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Michelle Smith / maker_mls
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Mugshots: Art and Crime STLCC Forest Park Gallery of Contemporary Art St. Louis, Missouri (forthcoming spring 2026)
Juried Exhibitions
2025 The Clay Cup VII: Icon, Vessel, Canvas MU George Caleb Bingham Gallery Columbia, Missouri
Teabowl National KC Clay Guild Kansas City, Missouri
Members Exhibition St. Louis Artists’ Guild St. Louis, Missouri
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition STLCC Forest Park Gallery of Contemporary Art St. Louis, Missouri (Honorable Mention)
2024 Members Exhibition St. Louis Artists’ Guild St. Louis, Missouri
Impressions Unbound St. Louis Artists’ Guild St. Louis, Missouri
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition STLCC Forest Park Gallery of Contemporary Art St. Louis, Missouri (Third place)
Everything is a Remix Gallery Row St. Charles, Missouri
Last Call IX Companion Gallery Humboldt, Tennessee
2023 Clay Cup VI MU George Caleb Bingham Gallery Columbia, Missouri
Raise a Toast Edwardsville Arts Center Edwardsville, Illinois
Publications
2025 55.856279, -4.259887 published in The Forest - An Annual Literary and Art Journal, St. Louis Community College, page 10
Tea for Two published in The Forest - An Annual Literary and Art Journal, St. Louis Community College, page 43
2024 Gone and Forgotten published in The Forest - An Annual Literary and Art Journal, St. Louis Community College, page 55
Identity published in The Forest - An Annual Literary and Art Journal, St. Louis Community College, pages 26-27
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Education
2025 - 2022 St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
1991 - 1986 BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Related Experience
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2023 - Current Studio Technician, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
Specializing in glaze and clay body formulation