Background
Smith, Survilla Marie was born on October 17, 1933 in Chattanooga. Daughter of Charlie and LeGusta (Robinson) Prater.
artist social services administrator poet
Smith, Survilla Marie was born on October 17, 1933 in Chattanooga. Daughter of Charlie and LeGusta (Robinson) Prater.
Student, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Boston, 1965—1966. Student in English Literature, Northeastern University, 1967—1973. Student, Museum School Fine Arts, 1989—1991.
Student, University Massachusetts, 1989—1996. Student, Simmons Graduate School Management, 1995—1997.
Executive secretary The Ecumenical Center, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1965-1967, Roxbury Federation of Neighborhoods, 1965-1968. Business manager Council of Elders, Inc., Boston, 1969-1972. Executive secretary, assistant bookkeeper Education Renewal, Inc., 1972-1973.
Assistant director METCO Inter-District Transfer Inc., Roxbury, 1973-1975. Pupil personnel coordinator Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, 1975-1978. With Visiting Nurse Association of Boston, 1978-1979.
Secretary Bay State Banner Newspaper, Roxbury, 1980. Senior outreach coordinator Mattahunt Community Sch Senior Outreach, Mattapan, Massachusetts, 1989-1995. Founder, chairman, Chief Executive Officer Studio for the Promotion of Arts, Culture, and Excellence, An Artistic Comty., Inc.
Founder., chairman, Chief Executive Officer LED, since 1995. Member reflection in action committee Harvard Medical School, since 2003.
Active Women's Caucus Art, Boston chapter, Coalition of 100 Black Women, National Council Negro Women. Chairman health campaign Grove Hall/Franklin Park AARP, Boston, since 1990. Volunteer Experiment in International Living, Massachusetts, Mattapan/Franklin Park Jubilee Task Force, WGBH, American Cancer Society, volunteer Bloomingdales Shopping Benifit Day, 2009.
Artwork auction donor various organizations. Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Northeast, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Academy American Poets, National Council of Negro Women, Greater Boston Chapt., Boston Afro-American Artists, National Poetry Society, South End Artists, Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities, Dorchester Art Association, American for the Arts, National Writer's Association, Poetry Society of America.
Children: Charles, Calvin, Robin.