Sally Giddings Smith is a native Mainer who left for 40 years, but returned in 2009. Her studio, Fortunate Chance, is in East Boothbay. She will be the Artist of the Months of March and April at the Southport Memorial Library.

As a student at Wellesley College in the ’60s, she was apprenticed to Sigmund Abeles, a printmaker and sculptor now teaching at the University of New Hampshire. As an apprentice, she was one of two students first allowed to paint for a semester’s credit. Now, a well-developed Wellesley studio arts program educates not just art historians, but also practicing artists, videographers, sculptors and printmakers.

Since then, she has drawn architectural plans for clients, for historical preservationists, illustrated a book of poetry dedicated to Point Lobos State Reserve in Carmel, California, illustrated cookbooks including the Congressional Cookbook of 1991, and “continued drawing and painting in different media wherever I was living.”

Giddings Smith has been in invitational group shows in New York and California, and single person shows in California. She also has work in collections in Paris, Montreal, California, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and Finland.

“I love light and color in all places, and in all people.”

For more on the artist, visit www.eastboothbaylive.blogspot.com.

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