Barbara T. Smith Is Amazing!

Life is such a pleasant thing. I've been really busy lately busy worrying about the future, worrying about the present. I'm almost unemployed and pretty much homeless trying to figure out where I want to live next.

So now I'm in Ohio performing my one-man show at a performance art symposium. One of the other performers is Holly Hughes which if you don't know her by name she's one of the four artist whose NEA funding was taken away because they were too "controversial". Their case against the NEA went all the way to the Supreme Court. Of course she was amazing, but who I wasn't expecting was Barbara T. Smith.

Meeting this woman was an affirmation of why we as artists do what we do. I don't even know how to explain it. Having any conversation with her makes you feel like you're at a well of knowledge and understanding that overflows. She attributes any understanding she has to her work. She uses her work to explore who she is and inherently what we all are as beings on this planet the good and the bad. If you ever get a chance to meet her, or see her perform, or read anything about her DO IT!

BARBARA T. SMITH IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1