education

1960

BFA, Memphis College of Art

professional

2008

Waves Between the Windows, sculpture, accessioned by Memphis Brooks Museum of Art for
permanent collection

2007

Juror, RiverArts Fest, Memphis
Juror, Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Tuscaloosa

2006

Juror, Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Master classes with Robert Ebendorf, Eureka Springs AR
Faculty, Summer Exhibition, Arrowmont School of the Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Musing Speaker, Tennessee Arts Academy Belmont University, Nashville
Faculty, Summer Exhibition, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
Juror, Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, Fall Craft Fair, Nashville

2005

Visiting artist, lecture, workshop, Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago
Visiting artist, lecture, workshop, Arizona Designer Craftsmen, Phoenix
Visiting artist and lecture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Artists Write Series speaker, Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Eureka Springs, AR
Artists Life Lecturer, Shakerag Workshops, Sewanee, TN

2004

Keynote speaker, Ohio Art Education Association, Columbus, OH
Visiting artist/faculty, Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Eureka Springs, AR
Visiting artist/faculty, Quilt Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH
Commencement Address, Memphis College of Art, Class of 2004, Memphis
Arts Build Communities advisory review panel, Memphis Arts Council, Memphis

2003

Juror, 32nd Annual Tennessee Crafts Fair, Nashville
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

selected exhibitions

2009

Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery

2008

Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Dolph Smith: Looking Back, David Lusk Gallery
Works of Heart, Memphis College of Art, Memphis

2007

A Sense of Place, Invitational, Crittenden Arts Council, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis
Outside the Book, Invitational, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
Action/Interaction: Book/Art, national survey of artist's books, invitational, Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago

2006

Dolph Smith: A Retrospective, Mid-South Community College, West Memphis, AR (catalog)
Beyond Words, Artist's Books, a juried exhibition, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Bound Visions: Artist's Books, an invitational, Crafts Alliance, St Louis, MO (catalog)
Art of Caring-Memphis Masters, Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis
The Arts Interviews, A Living History: one-hour documentary profile of 10 area artists produced by
True Stories Pictures, Memphis College of Art
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art, Portland

2005

Tennessee Masterworks 2005, Madison Art Center, Madison, TN
Recent Works, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, TN
Shakerag Exhibition 2005, St Andrews-Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee, TN

2004

Sculptural Installation, The Memphis Flyer, Contemporary Media Offices, Memphis
Long Hours, No Pay, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis

2002

Speaking Volumes, The University Educators Books Arts Invitational, Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta
The Liquid Language of Books Invitational Mid-America Print Council, University of Wyoming, Laramie Side by Side, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis

2001

PEDAGOGY, Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago

2000

Surface Embellishment, Arizona Designer Craftsmen, Arizona State University
Archibookture Columbia College Center Book and Paper Arts, Chicago
National Summer Faculty Invitational, Arrowmont School of Arts, Gatlinburg, TN
Celebrate Life, Albers Gallery, Memphis

1999

Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council Invitational, Memphis
Color! Theory, College of Visual Arts, St Paul, MN

1998

Looking Back: Rhodes College Faculty and Alumni, 1946-1998, Rhodes College, Memphis
BOOK/ART/BOOK, National Invitational of Contemporary Books, Houston
Back to Sea, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis
Arts in the Park: Then and Now, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
National Faculty Summer Invitational, Arrowmont School of Arts, Gatlinburg, TN
Fifteen Visions of Book Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1996

Recent Works/Tennarkippi, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis
Arts Day '96, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis

1995

Art Toys: Playing for Keeps, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis
Dolph Smith: From Hurricane Hill to Tennarkippi: Thirty Year Retrospective, Memphis College of Art, Arts Day '95, Askew Nixon Ferguson Archite cts, Memphis
Mystery of the Magic Box, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage AK

1994

Ten Years, Ten Artists, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis Journals & Journeys, Columbia College Center for Book a & Paper Arts, Chicago
Biblio/Graphics, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Boxes, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

1993

Tennarkippi's Day of the Ladders, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis

awards and honors

2006

Honorary Degree of Associate of Arts, Mid-South Community College, West Memphis, AR
October 5, 2006, proclaimed "Dolph Smith Day" by City of West Memphis, Arkansas
Spirit of Tennessee Distinguished Service Award, Tennessee Arts Academy at Belmont University, Nashville

2005

Shaman Award for Lifetime Artist Achievement, Tennessee Artists Guild, Nashville

2004

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Memphis College of Art, Memphis

1997

Arts and Humanities Award Medalist for Lifetime Achievement in Visual Arts, Germantown Arts Alliance, Germantown, TN

1996

First Recipient, Benjamin Goodman Faculty Travel Award, Memphis College of Art, Memphis

1992

TACA Traveling Competition, Tennessee and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis

1990

Arts in the Park, One of five Mid-South artists honored, October 1990

1986

Tennessee Bicentennial Award, Nashville

1980-81

First BRAVO Fellowship, First Tennessee Bank, Memphis

1976

ART/1976, Grand Award, Memphis

selected commissions

2003

Confluence, 10'x120' steel and copper, UrbanArt Commission for Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Memphis

1999

A Tree Grows in Tennarkippi, poster for Memphis Arts festival, Memphis

1985-89

four year commission for Holiday Corporation Hotel Group, Memphis