Morgan Smith is a cinema artist working in
Southwest Florida
Morgan Smith has been rooted in the arts since childhood. After ten years as a ballet choreographer, she transitioned into other art forms—filmmaking, photography, graphic and layout design, writing and editing—through her production company, Crooked Line Productions.
A life-long storyteller, her practice invokes the language of cinema in projected moving-image installations. In her work, she focuses on the realities of everyday human existence, representing both external and internal experiences. She believes that the language of cinema has the ability to immerse the viewer, bring them to attention, and propose self-reflection.
In 2020, she earned her BFA in Fine Art at Watkins School of Art in Nashville, TN, and has continued to show her work in solo and group exhibitions. Smith is currently finishing a three-year MFA in Studio Art residency program at Florida State University.
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“Something in our soul has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue… Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated by the object.”
-Simone Weil
