Keri Smith is a

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author,

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and conceptual artist. Her work includes topics such as imperfection and impermanence from a visual arts perspective. Smith is also a

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illustrator. Since fall 2010, she teaches part-time at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in

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, British Columbia, Canada. In 2013 she became "Resident Thinker" for the piece Nowhereisland by artist Alex Hartley in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Smith's book ''Wreck This Journal'' encourages readers to expand their scopes of

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. She is also credited with ''This Is Not a Book'' (2009, Penguin Group) a mostly blank book intended to prompt creative responses from purchasers.

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