Bonnie J. Smith is a international textile artist, author, curator and is the author of the "She Votes" book that represents sixty four artist art and thoughts about the one hundred anniversary of the 19th Amendment. She is a longtime Juried Artist Member of the International Organization Studio Art Quilt Associates. Bonnie was also the 2016 recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award and grant.

Bonnie is involved with curating women’s social justice exhibits and most recently conceptualized and was also an exhibitor in the ground breaking exhibit “Forming Our Lives” at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles that visually told the heartfelt personal stories of three women textile artist.

Her textile art has received International and National recognition and has been juried into Quilt National, Dairy Barn, Ohio. Bonnie received the 2015 NICHE Award for design. Recently, her textile artwork was chosen to be exhibited at the New Designers Exhibition, London; her textile artwork “Pescadero” was selected to be exhibited in 2016 at the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Theme of this exhibit is “Water is Life: Clean Water and Its Impact on the Lives of Women and Girls around the World”, this exhibit will travel through 2017.
Bonnie’s most recent installation “Swimming Upstream” provided the inspiration for her book “Swimming Upstream a Memoir”, that tells her personal journey from the work related injury that placed her temporarily in a wheel chair to finally finding the courage to start creating art and living life again to its fullest. The “Swimming Upstream” installation has received the prestigious “Voters Injured at Work Award” along with numerous other awards and was exhibited at The Festival of Quilts; Birmingham, United Kingdom in 2017.
A self taught artist she resides in San Jose, California. She attended Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis Campus, and Indiana Central College and has taken Master Dyeing Classes under the direction of Joan Morris professor Dartmouth College, NH.
Contact Information:
bonniejofiberarts.com - bjs8934@gmail.com - bonniejosmithfiberarts.blogspot.c