Workshop021 is a multidisciplinary creative studio that offers freelance graphic design services, fine art, and unique handmade products.

Tedd Smith, Artist and Designer

Art that offers a glimpse of a possibility, real or fanciful, is what Tedd Smith finds exciting about being an artist. His abstract mixed media pieces include handwritten messages in ink, graphite, layers of acrylic paint, and upcycled paper carrying letterforms and words. Provoking thought, a sense of wonder and escape, or simply supplying another human with joy through art is extremely rewarding for this Michigan resident.

You can find my art for sale at Cocoon Art Space in downtown Grand Rapids.

Reach out to me via email:

tedd@workshop021.com

CURRENT PROJECTS & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

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Abstract mixed media pieces showing at Cocoon Art Space
Evolutionar!es, 2023 to present (ArtPrize)
Monster Saints, mixed media art
Monstorium, 2017 to present

SELECTED SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS

Refugee Turtles (an Evolutionar!es story), Collaborative Art Exhibition with Josie Garcia, September 2024, Cocoon Art Space
Banned and Censored, art about books and censorship July-September 2024 Cocoon Art Space
Evolutionar!es, September 2023, Cocoon Art Space
Aftermath, January 2023, Cocoon Art Space, Grand Rapids
Order and Entropy, December 2018, Cocoon Art Space, Phoenix
Wilderness - A Selected Landscape Series, 2017, Cocoon Art Space, Phoenix

SELECTED GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS

Patience, My Deer, January-March 2025, Cocoon Art Space, Grand Rapids
Seasons and Patterns, October-November 2024, Cocoon Art Space, Grand Rapids
Nerdtastic Geekery, January-February 2024, Cocoon Art Space, Grand Rapids
Weird & Creepy, October 2023, Cocoon Art Space, Grand Rapids
50 Artists, 150 Pieces (Group Show), August 2019, The Icehouse, Phoenix
The Siren and the Lotus, 2018 with Josie Garcia, Cocoon Art Space, Phoenix
Selections, 2017 with Edgar Fernandez, Cocoon Art Space, Phoenix
Recycle Arts Fest, 2016, WHAM West Gallery, Surprise.
Acceptance into a juried exhibit, “Comics Ode to De Stijl- v4.”

VISUAL ART ORGANIZATIONS

Cocoon Art Space, 2017-2019, Phoenix, Co-curator and Resident Artist
Anthem Education Group, 2008-2010 Phoenix, Advisory Board for graphic design program
Creative Roundtable, 2006-2010 Phoenix, Member
Sketch Artists Group, 2009-2010 Phoenix, Founder
West Side Creatives, 2008 – 2010 Phoenix, Founder. Networking group for creative business professionals in Phoenix’s West Valley

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY PROJECTS

I Heart Recycled Art, a recycled arts experience, March and April 2024
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration and Service, 2017, City of Surprise.
Created and facilitated with Josie Garcia, Canvas, mixed media
Salute to Veterans, 2016, City of El Mirage.
Project created, designed, and facilitated with Josie Garcia. Canvas, acrylic paint and markers

VOLUNTEERING

West Valley Art Museum, 2016-2017, Peoria, Volunteer
Wilderness Steward Volunteer, Jun 2013 - Jan 2018, Arizona Wilderness Coalition

COMMISSIONS

Mayor’s Awards Bowling Pin, 2016, City of Surprise, Carved wood bowling pin commissioned by Mayor Wolcott

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CURRENT PROJECTS & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS​

CURRENT PROJECTS & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS