Geoffrey
L. Smith Director Bio "It's hard to look at art when your going 80mph," (quote
from Peace on the Highway), and it is just as hard to keep up with Media Artist
Geoffrey L. Smith. Geoffrey works and creates in all areas of the TV/Film industry.
For example, he free lances for ABC Sports, Chairs a Film/Video Committee for
the Individual Artist of Oklahoma Art Gallery, and he produces, directs and host
is own cable access show, the G-Spot. Geoffrey is also a recent Media Artist graduate
from the University of Oklahoma School of Fine Art. While attending OU he won
several film contest for his stop-action animations, commercials and his first
documentary, Peace on the Highway. In spring 2002 Geoffrey taught as a guest artist-in-residence
at Whitter Middle School in Norman, Oklahoma and teaches a video production camp
at the OKC Museum of Art.. It is Geoffrey's intention in the future to keep creating,
working, and teaching in the media industry.
AWARDS & HONORS
Drama
Awards
1984/85 Hutchinson High School Round Top Players
1985/86 Hutchinson High School
1984/85 Hutchinson High School Perrill Club
School
Scholarships, Grants, & Honors,
2001 (UROP) the University of Oklahoma Undergraduate Research
Opportunities
Program Grant
1985/86 Hutchinson High School
Super SaltHawk Award
The University of Oklahoma's Dean Honor Roll
Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 1999
Poem
Award
Freedom published in the book, The Coming of Dawn
1993 Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry
presented by
The National Library of Poetry
Band
Most Self-Destructive 1983
Least Likely to be seen at the beginning of Band Rehearsal
1985
Sports
Swimming-2nd
place finish in freestyle Prairie Dunes Country Club, 1974
Basketball-1st place in
YMCA basketball tournaments for Holy Cross School years
3rd grade& 6th
grade
1st place finish
in tournament with the Trinity Junior High School boys,
8th grade
Tennis- (Played in
tournaments for the Hutchinson Recreation Commission)
1st place Consolation
bracket--Intermediate Flight-- Dec. 1983, Oct. 1984
1st place Consolation bracket--Social Flight--Feb.
1984
2nd place-- Social
Flight--Sept. 1983
1st place Labor
day Tournament--Mix or Match DBLS-Division 3,
1983
1st place--Novice
Flight-- June 1983
1st place-- Social
Flight-- June 1984
* 3 Tennis medals
(singles & doubles) won during the 1984 Hutchinson High School boys Tennis Season*
Film/Video
Awards
Winner of Best
in Show at the 2000 Individual Artist of Oklahoma (IAO) annual screening
for the The Price of Happiness,
(stop-motion animation) &
Dancin Geoffrey, (mock Documentary). They tied for Best in
Show. Honorable Mention
for
Political Commercials, 2000 OU Student Film Contest.
Honorable Mention
for Dead Uncle Lowell, 1998
OU Student Film Contest.
Misc
1st Prize Kansas State Fair--Brownies-- age group 12
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GLS
GOALS
Personal,
Business, & Artistic
Personal
1)
Positive cash flow
2)
Travel to all seven continents--1 down and 6 to go.
3)
Retirement nest egg by the age of 70
4)
Establish future scholarships for students with Learning Disabilities,
Manic Depression, & students majoring in Media Art
Business
1)
Provide quality services and products
2)
Annual base of 2,000 customers
3)
Positive cash flow
Artistic
1)
Successful comedy routine
2)
Produce, direct, and act in video and film projects
3)
Continually sell my necklaces and other art works
4)
Always feel free as a creative artist
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