Smith & Wisznia Collection (Paperback or Softback)

The Smith & Wisznia collection's singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana during this period of renewal, rebirth, and rebuilding experienced an art renaissance. The Smith & Wisznia Collection features artists of color, women, LGBTQ and artists of diverse religious backgrounds. The Art World's current trend has shifted to visual artists who have been marginalized and or discriminated against who are now being exhibited in galleries and museums Worldwide to a welcoming and exuberant audience. The Smith & Wisznia Collection is a window into a collector's and curator's vision, focus and commitment and their collective's contributions to the landscape of Contemporary Art and Society.

Terrence Sanders-Smith has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine and Artvoices Art Books. Sanders-Smith mission as Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine (Established 2008) was to create a platform for emerging, neglected and under recognized artists who create important and relevant works of art. Sanders-Smith is the Father of noted artist Lucien Smith. Sanders-Smith has directed and curated art spaces: Terrence Sanders Gallery (New Orleans), Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles), Sanders, Smith & Stokes (New Orleans), Artists 101 (Los Angeles), Makeshift Museum (Los Angeles). Sanders has curated over 50 exhibitions including: ’60 Americans’ ‘We Got Next’ and the ‘Saratoga Collection’. Sanders-Smith has exhibited more than 100 visual artists without representation at art fairs in Europe and the United States.