Jo smith is a working artist in the pioneer valley, of western Massachusetts. She works in a variety of media including acrylic, watercolor, gouache, oil sticks, ink, wood and glass. She studied art in New York and Kenya, Africa. She has taught high school art in independent schools, and earned a graduate degree from Springfield College in Art Therapy.

Jo currently has a studio in Florence, MA, is working as a graphic designer and has a small art therapy practice in Northampton. To see more of her work or inquire about art therapy you can phone her for a studio appointment at 413-949-0932.

I believe art lives in an in-between place·kind of like an airport layover. You go there and you are someplace in-between where you came from and where you are going. And you can be anyone you can make anything up. All this Art is in the middle of something.

I like in-between places, like the center of an Oreo, getting my hair cut, watching the stream moving down the mountain, or noticing the warm wind slightly blowing before Summer ends.Temporary, shifting, changing things seem to have a sparkle. Whenever I try to make creativity stand still or stay the same, it runs away and hides.