Oral history interview with Janet Smith

Title

Oral history interview with Janet Smith

Narrator

Smith, Janet

Description

Janet Smith found her passion for art at a young age. She attended Bacone where she worked under Dick West and Ruthenium's Blalock Jones and then majored in art while attending Northeastern State University. She later entered the field of art therapy and worked as the director of the art therapy program at Cherokee Nation's Jack Brown Treatment Center. Smith works on canvas and in ceramics and her styles focus on Native women's history and turtles.

Interviewer

Little Thunder, Julie Pearson

Keyword

Oklahoma Native Artists; Cherokee heritage; art therapy

Subject

Indians of North America; Artists; Potters; Pottery

Spatial

Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Bacone

Citation of material

Oklahoma Oral History Research Program-Oklahoma State University

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