VISUAL

FALL 2026

Shauna Le Ann Smith

 
 

Linked Embossed, 2023.

 
 

For the past three years, my creative practice has centered on hand papermaking. Rituals of healing are embedded into my work.

 
 
 

Persistence II, 2023.

 
 

In circles, I meditate on wholeness and continuation. In overlapping lines, I highlight the interconnection that weaves between every aspect of life. In light, I bring forth hope. In natural material, I channel my deep appreciation and celebration of the world around me.

 
 
 
 

Keeping Connections Clear II, 2021.

 
 
 

The details, which exist in the fiber qualities of the paper and in the subtle imagery that is poked into the sheet, are only noticeable through sustained attention and close proximity. The work requires a level of patience and care in both its making and viewing.

 
 

Where We Meet, 2022.

 
 
 
 
 

Shauna Le Ann Smith

Shauna Le Ann Smith is an artist currently living and working in Springfield, Missouri. She received her MFA and BFA from Missouri State University in 2016 and her AFA from East Central College in 2014. Exploring the relationship between artmaking and community building, Shauna uses interdisciplinary practices to create site-responsive work which takes the shape of gatherings, objects, spaces, or relational forms. A question central to her work is, “What is possible here?”

Smith has conducted several social practice projects including Slow Viewing (2019-current) and How We Are Feeling (2020). She co-founded Lawn Art With Neighbors (2020-current) in collaboration with Deidre Argyle and Jodi McCoy. She has co-curated several exhibitions including Mapping Awareness: Social Objects and Detritus at the Carolla Arts Exhibition Center (2022), Socially Distanced at Brick City Gallery (2021), and was an invited co-curator in Humanities, Vol I at the Springfield Art Museum (2022). She has had several solo exhibitions including Continuing (2023, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO), Requests for Slowness and Patience (2022, Bentley Gallery, Springfield, MO), and On Life and Death (2019, Rosette Studios, Springfield, MO), and has participated in several national group exhibitions. Her work has been published in Soft Quarterly and Slag Mag.