JASON SMITH ’10

Jason Smith has always created art. Growing up in Newport, Rhode Island, his family encouraged his creativity.

His longstanding interest in mythology, religion, and ancient cultures inspired a series that explores belief systems and their artifacts—relief carvings, codices, sculptures, and monuments. Part of that series, Yoruba depicts a creation myth of a marshy world to which the gods descended on spiderwebs, enlisting a pigeon, a five-toed hen, and a chameleon to solidify and dry out the earth.