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Title:	The Art and Design of Howard Smith
Date:	5/10/2025 - 3/2/2026
Address:	Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Location:	Palm Springs, CA
Hours:	Thursday: 12:00pm - 8:00pm / Friday - Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $20
Web Page:	https://www.psmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/howard-smith
Contact Info:	760-322-4800

Details:

Palm Springs Art Museum, in collaboration with Espoo Museum of Modern Art, will showcase the work of Howard Smith for the first time in the United States since the 1980s. Smith (1928-2021) was an artist from New Jersey whose textiles and ceramics were produced by some of Scandinavia’s biggest design firms during the heyday of post-war modernism. One of the few Black artists of his generation to successfully collaborate with industry, he brought exuberant color to curtain design and decorated his ceramics with a unique pictorial language that fused abstract forms with African symbols. In his studio work, Smith did it all: painting, sculpture, drawing, assemblage, screen-printing, ceramics, and collage. He adapted army field jackets into wall sculpture, contrived shamanistic masks from vintage hats, and elevated the humble paper cut into high art with elaborate compositions.