Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith is the founder and co-director of A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas. She has been a photographer for over thirty-five years as well as a Certified Public Accountant. She used both her knowledge of photography and business skills to create the gallery fifteen years ago. Amanda has been a champion of photography, photographers and the creative potential of the photographic process through over 200 juried and curated exhibitions in the gallery and online.
She has also been a juror for numerous outside organizations, including All About Photo, Analogue Forever, Dodho magazine, Lamar University, The Texas Photographic Society and Critical Mass. Amanda served on the board of The Texas Photographic Society for ten years serving as the treasurer.
Amanda’s personal photographic work began in the darkroom, working with both traditional and alternative processes. Amanda now creates her personal work digitally with various analog enhancements. Her images have been selected for numerous juried and group exhibitions, including most recently an honorable mention in the 25th Julia Margaret Cameron awards. Her work is in several collections, including The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, Concordia University, Austin and numerous private collections.
Erin Dunn
Erin Dunn is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA where she has been a member of the curatorial team since 2014. She has organized numerous exhibitions including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Bruce Davidson: Face to Face, and Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present in collaboration with The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Recent and upcoming projects include an installation by multidisciplinary artist Raheleh Filsoofi, a film commission with Allison Janae Hamilton, and the first major exhibition to explore the profound impact of Ossabaw Island on arts, culture, and the sciences in the United States during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Her writing has appeared in Late Night Polaroids: Photographs by Emily Earl and Seven Rivers, a monograph of photographer Ansley West Rivers. In addition, Dunn spearheads Telfair’s #art912 initiative, which raises the visibility and promotes the vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. Dunn was the recipient of the Fall 2023 Margie E. West Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. She holds a BA from Emory University and an MA from the University of Georgia.