Steve Smith
	Steve Smith is an artist and a teacher. He is from the midwest and has lived on the front range of Colorado since 1971. Born in 1954, he has had a rich career involving high-tech art, media and experimental techniques. Steve is currently the owner of ArtToyz Studios in Golden Colorado. He recently retired after 14 years from the Art Institute of Colorado as a full time instructor in Computer Animation and Visual Effects. Steve has taught classes in 3D Animation, Video Production and Effects Generation and Traditional Art methods. 
Steve also engages in multimedia productions, live performance art, 3D animation and traditional fine art. His major focus is ART (in all media), Traditional Fine Art as well as Digital Media and Animation. His video production background includes working as an animator and videographer for Ken Burgmaier with Jazz Alley TV since 1992 and for the Taos Solar Music Festival since 2000. Heath Burr and GRASP Media has also been a focus since 1997, involving  videography and animation for a number of projects in the music industry and for the internet. He has also been associated with Corwin Bell, Rain Productions and Wild Divine since the early 1990s.
Steve Smith’s art is diverse, including computer graphics, animation and live performance venues, as well as Fine Art, with sculpture, painting and drawing. Mostly shown in the Denver area, Steve’s Fine Art is a combination of 60’s culture with high-tech and new materials, pushing the limits of what fine art can mean in a modern world.
The art work is geometric, Kitsch, and playful, with a common theme around color and pattern. He also does chainsaw sculpture (no bears) and assemblage. The Color By Numbers work recently shown at The Funky Buddah in Denver involves Sacred Geometry through a visualization of mathematics and number systems. These were based on a pattern generation system he invented in the 1980’s. The work recently shown in Salt Lake City is mostly representational Glass and Mirror Mosaics.
Steve has shown at Regis College, The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, The Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, The Fiske Planetarium, Clara Hatton Gallery, Sibelle-Wolle Gallery in Fort Collins and a variety of Colorado galleries, such as Spark and Core and the gallery at the Art Institute of Colorado. He is currently represented at Off Her Rocker in Nederland, CO. 

Since 1999, Steve has run his own freelance business, ArtToyz Studios, which has a website at ArtToyz.com that offers a glimpse of what Steve is about. His freelance work focuses around 3D animation and videography. He can be contacted at 303-642-2332 or via e-mail at SteveSmith@ArtToyz.com