Background
Sharon Jean Smith was born on June 25, 1951, in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Sharon Jean Smith was born on June 25, 1951, in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Sharon Smith received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1972), and studied photography in 1976 at Apeiron Workshops, Inc., in Millerton, New York.
In the 1980s Sharon Smith was a book designer for Ahn Tai Chi Studio in New York City. She coordinated Apeiron's Long Island Project in 1978 and was a director/teacher for Apeiron's Dutchess-Columbia Photographic Education Project in 1977.
A member of the Photography International Foundation, Inc., Sharon Smith received funding from NEA in 1978 for a photographic survey of Long Island.
Sharon Smith names Peter Schlessinger (director of Apeiron Workshops), Don Ahn (Tai Chi Master), and Paul Vanderbilt (artist and philosopher) as important influences.