LIBBY DONOVAN SMITH
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- EDUCATION
1978 University of California, Santa Barbara, M.F.A.
1976 University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A. Fine Arts
- SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 100 Grand, Invitational, Sullivan Goss An American Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
SCAPE, Sea to Summit, Annual Fall Exhibition, Juror Bill Davidson, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara CA.
Make Hay While the Sun Shines, Juried, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria CA.
Rising Voices, Associate Artist Virtual Showcase, California Art Club, Jurors Frank Ordaz and Kathleen Hudson.
Find the Beautiful, Invitational, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, CA.
Garland of Groovy Goddesses, Invitational, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, CA.
2025 Plein Air Visions, California Art Club, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, Ca.
Nature’s Palette, SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment), Fall Exhibition, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Ca.
Make Hay While the Sun Shines, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, Ca.
2024 The Golden Hour, Juror Wyliss Heaton, Carpinteria Arts Center, Carpinteria, Ca.
Central Coast Reflections, SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment) Fall Exhibition, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Ca.
2023 Mixed Up, Tri-County Juried, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
The California Scene, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA.
15th. Annual Art About Agriculture, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, Ca.
100 Grand, Invitational, Sullivan Goss An American Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, Ca.
Parks, Trails and Open Spaces, SCAPE Fall Exhibition, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA.
2022 Uncanny, Tri-County Juried , Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
A Celebration of Art and Nature, SCAPE Fall Exhibition, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Ca.
California Mission Trail from Carpinteria to Guadalupe, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA.
2021 Bio/Mass:Contemporary Meditations on Nature, Invitational, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA.
Art From the Trails, Invitational, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA.
Local Treasures, Invitational, Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Climate Change, SCAPE, Community Arts Workshop , Santa Barbara, CA.
100 Grand, Invitational Sullivan Goss An American Gallery, Santa Barbara CA.
2020 100 Grand, Invitational Sullivan Goss An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2019 Rose Compass, Paintings of Santa Barbara’s Watershed, Six Person Exhibition, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
Images of our Maritime Community, SCAPE, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara, CA.
Celebrating the National Lands of California, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA.
100 Grand, Invitational, Sullivan Goss An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2018 Double Vision, Libby Smith and Nina Warner, Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
The River’s Journey, One Year, Six Artists, Ninety-two Miles, The Wilding Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA.
The River’s Journey Revisited, Santa Barbara City Hall, Santa Barbara CA.
The River’s Journey:A Wider View, Sullivan Goss An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2017 SCAPE Annual Fall Exhibition
2016 The Art of Aviation, Santa Paula Art Museum and Museum of Aviation, Santa Paula Airport, Santa Paula, CA.
Celebrating the National Parks in California, The Wilding Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA. Jurors Judy Larson, Marc Muench and Thomas Paquette.
A Brush with Waves, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Juror Michael Drury
Visions of the Gaviota Coast, Bacara Resort, 4th. Annual Benefit for the Naples Coalition & Gaviota Coast Conservancy, Goleta, CA.
2015 Visions of the Gaviota Coast, Bacara Resort, 3rd. Annual Benefit for the Naples Coalition & Gaviota Coast Conservancy, Goleta, CA. Juror Chris Chapman
2014 Art From the Groves: Santa Ines Mission Mills, Elverhoj Museum of History and Art, Solvang, CA. Juror Robert Burridge
Made You Look, Annual Tri-County Juried Exhibition, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. Juror Meg Cranston
2012 Original/Multiple, Invitational, Elverhoj Museum, Solvang, Ca.
Limited Edition Printmaking Project, Invitational, Mayor’s Office City of Santa Barbara, CA. Curated by Nicole Strasburg
Figure Fragments: The Part as The Whole, Betteravia Gallery, Santa Maria and Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Invitational Curated by Priscilla Bender-Shore
2011 Limited Edition Printmaking Project, www.sbartscollaborative.org, Invitational, Santa Barbara, CA, Curated by Nicole Strasburg
18th Annual Juried Show Santa Barbara Printmakers, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
Small Images 2011, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
2010 Art Faculty Exhibition, Santa Barbara City College (biannually since 2006)
17th Annual Juried Show Santa Barbara Printmakers, Channing Peake Gallery
2009 16th Annual Juried Show Santa Barbara Printmakers, Faulkner Gallery
2008 Views and Visions: The Shoe, Annual Tri-County Juried Exhibition, Westmont College, Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Juror Stephanie Dotson
15th Annual Juried Show Santa Barbara Printmakers, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
Santa Barbara Printmakers, Studio 3 East, Santa Barbara, CA.
2007 14th Annual Juried Show Santa Barbara Printmakers, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2006 Faculty Exhibition, Santa Barbara City College (yearly since 1980), Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
2005 The Figure Obscured, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Juror Seybourn Zorthian
1999 Contemporary Artists Paint the Historic Mission Santa Ines Mills, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Casa de la Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA.
- All California Juried Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. Juror Wolf Khan
Landscapes, Real and Imagined, Artists Forum Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Invitational (Catalogue).
Pertaining to Water, Mount San Jacinto College Art Gallery, San Jacinto, CA,
1997 Drawing, Dana College Art Gallery, Dana College, Blair, Nebraska
Libby Smith, Drawing on Nature, Ventura College Art Gallery, Ventura, CA, Solo Exhibition
Winners in Landscape Art 1995, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Ridley-Tree Education Center, Santa Barbara, CA.
1996 Group Show, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Bestial Angels, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, Virginia, (catalogue)
1995 Bestial Angels, William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, Virginia, (catalogue)
Un Ange Passe, Westmont College, Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1994 I Madonnari, Italian Street Painting Festival, Santa Barbara Mission (yearly since 1987), Santa Barbara, CA.
Un Ange Passe, Westmont College, Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1993 What Heaven Looks Like, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and San Jose State University Art Galleries. (catalogue)
Pets: Artists and an American Obsession, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
Un Ange Passe, Westmont College Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1992 California Small Works, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA.
Un Ange Passe, Westmont College Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1991 Un Ange Passe, Westmont College, Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1988 "Libby Smith and Bonnie Blau", Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
1985 The Sheroic Figure, Women’s Center Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1977 Howard Warshaw A Continuing Tradition, Art Museum University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. (catalogue)
- AWARDS
2023 Third Place, Parks, Trails and Open Spaces, SCAPE, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA.
2022 Third Place, California Mission Trails, SCAPE, Wildling Museum, Solvang CA.
2021 Second Place, Climate Change, SCAPE, CAW, Santa Barbara, CA.
2015 Honorable Mention, Visions of the Gaviota Coast, Bacara Resort, Goleta, CA.
2014 Honorable Mention, Art From the Groves: Santa Ines Mission Mills, Elverhoj Museum, Solvang, CA.
2011 Award of Merit, Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
2008 Award of Merit, Views and Visions: The Shoe, Westmont College Reynolds Art Gallery
SantaBarbara, CA.
1999 Honorable Mention, Contemporary Artists Paint the Historic Mission Santa Ines Mills, The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Santa Barbara, Ca.
1995 Finalist, Individual Artist Awards in Landscape, The Santa Barbara Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA.
1992 Honorable Mention, Un Ange Passe, Westmont College, Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1991 Honorable Mention, Un Ange Passe, Westmont College, Reynolds Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
- Affiliations
California Art Club, Associate Artist
Member Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE)
- Catalogues
Landscapes, Real and Imagined, Artists Forum Gallery, San Francisco, CA.,1998, (catalogue)
Bestial Angels, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth Virgina, 1996 (catalogue)
Bestial Angels, William King Reginal Art Center, Abington, Virgina, 1996 (catalogue)
What Heaven Looks Like, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and San Jose State University Art Galleries, 1993, (catalogue)
Howard Warshaw, A Continuing Tradition, Art Museum University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 1977, (catalogue)
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 - 2016 Santa Barbara City College, Continuing Education/ Center for Lifelong Learning, Adjunct Professor Figure Drawing and Painting
1980 - 2011 Santa Barbara City College, Adjunct Professor Art Department, Painting and Drawing
1997 - 1998 Director, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
1985 - 1988 Graphic Artist, Promotions and Publicity, City of Santa Barbara Recreation Department, Santa Barbara, CA.
1988 Graphic Artist, Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial Committee, Santa Barbara
1981 - 1985 Graphic Artist, Abbeon Cal, Santa Barbara, CA.
1978 Editor with Mark Ferrer and Bonnie Blau. Drawings On Drawing by Howard Warshaw.
1978 Warshaw Estate. Cataloging, cleaning and documenting the Artist's work
