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Craft in America
Jewelry artist Art Smith
Art Smith (1917–1982) was a highly acclaimed jewelry artist whose extraordinary avant-garde creations pushed the limits of modernism from 1946 to the early 70s. Much of his work was a completely different scale from his contemporaries. He has been called a star of the modernist jewelry movement. Segment from the JEWELRY episode
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