Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940) is a Native American visual player and curator. She is an enrolled believer of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is plus of Métis and Shoshone descent. She is after that an art educator, art advocate, and embassy activist. She has been prolific in her long career, and her law draws from a Native worldview and comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues.

In the mid-1970s, Smith gained emphasis as a painter and printmaker, and superior she liberal her style and technique subsequently collage, drawing, and impure media. Her works have been widely exhibited and many are in the surviving collections of prominent art museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center as well as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her feat has afterward been collected by New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe) and Albuquerque Museum, both located in a landscape that has for ever and a day served as one of her greatest sources of inspiration. In 2020 the National Gallery of Art announced it had bought her painting "I See Red: Target", which consequently became the first painting upon canvas by a Native American performer in the gallery.

Smith actively supports the Native arts community by organizing exhibitions and project collaborations, and she has afterward participated in national commissions for public works. She lives in Corrales, New Mexico, near the Rio Grande, with her family.