Keri Smith

Keri Smith

Keri Smith is a Canadian conceptual artist and author of several bestselling books and apps about creativity including Wreck This Journal (Penguin), This is Not a Book (Penguin), How to be an Explorer of the World -the Portable Life/Art Museum,(Penguin), Mess: A Manual of Accidents and Mistakes (Penguin), The Guerrilla Art Kit (Princeton Architectural Press), Finish This Book (Penguin), and The Pocket Scavenger (Penguin).

Keri Smith at Penguin Random House

News about Keri Smith

  • The Center for Artistic Activism Reading List

    Update: We wrote a book! The Art of Activism: Your All Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible Here, in dazzling red and black words and pictures, is an all-purpose guide that shows how to bring about effective social…

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  • On Utopia
    On Utopia

    Keri Smith is a long-time friend of the Center, and even sits on our Advisory Board! For her 2014 book, The Imaginary World Of…, Center Co-Director Steve Lambert was asked to write a few words on Utopia, so he…

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  • CAA Advisor Keri Smith has a new book!

    A conceptual artist and author is luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it At 42, Keri Smith still writes to a pen pal. She deeply appreciates secret passageways. And she sometimes…

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