Interstate The American Road Trip


Allison Smith



Trading Post, 2006
Canvas tent containing objects crafted and collected from Allison's ongoing tour of America's open-air, living history museums
10' x 10' x 10'





Trading Post, 2006 (interior detail)

Smith made a reverse migration from California to New York. Along the way she stopped at various living history museums observing and participating historical and traditional crafts and trades. At Socrates Sculpture Park she has made an installation that evokes an early American trading post.

Born 1972
Lives Manhattan, New York

Education
2000 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1999 M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1995 B.F.A., Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
B.A., New School for Social Research, New York, NY