Featuring Chesley Smith

Born in Waco, Chesley Smith has been involved in art education for 40 years as a teacher in Waco schools and as head of the art department at Paul Quinn College in Dallas. He holds both bachelors and masters degrees in art education, and he has exhibited widely across Texas and elsewhere. Since 1986 he has had 13 solo exhibits in numerous venues around Texas, has contributed to dozens of other exhibits, and has produced a number of commissioned works.

Shown here are works from a series of wood reliefs, paper collages, paintings, images made by arranging vinyl record shards, and one pen and ink work. Most are inspired by jazz music. By painting while listening to jazz, he taps into the emotions, memories and feelings evoked by it.

If you are interested in obtaining Chesley's art, you may contact him at csmith108@hot.rr.com or 254-644-0300.

          

I Have a Dream              Protector

acrylic, merit award    18x24 collage

2021 AGCT               1st place mixed

online exhibit             media, FW exhibit

Play the Music	All That Jazz	Let the Music Play	Jazz Singer	Guitar
Mardi Gras	Saxaphone	Celebration	Guitar Player painted wood	Billie Holiday
Martin Luther King	You Bring Me Flowers	Good Ol' Boy	Painfully Shy acrylic	Beautiful Music
Passionate painted wood	Melody acrylic	Unleashed acrylic	Nelson Mandela	Baby Girl ink on paper
Rythmic painted wood	Self Portrait	The Blues	Untitled painted wood	Eternal Flame 11x14 box frame, painted metal
Brown Guitar 16x20, acrylic on canvas	Blue Guitar 20x24, acrylic on canvas	Good Ol' Boy 19x25, painted wood	Self Portrait as a King of Hearts acrylic on canvas
Trumpeter pencil on paper	Flutist pencil on paper	Eternal Flame	Guitars	Blue Guitar
Good Ol' Boy		Pressley collage with vinyl LPs, 16" x 20", $250	Dimensional Portrait painted wood, 16" x 18", $250