Dressler
Smith is an artist and colorist, whose works on paper and stained
glass are designed to touch the human spirit.
Her
work has gained a national reputation and caught the eye of critics
and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey and NFL quarterback,
Randall Cunningham.
Dressler was asked to write an article for the Camden Courier Post on the role of art in revealing and documenting African American history. The article was published in the Sunday, February 10, 2008 issue.Click the thumbnail image (right) for
a larger view and a copy of the article.
Dressler's mural work with the students at Cooper's Poynt School in Camden was featured in July, 2007, as part of Rutgers University's series on Camden Art Gardens.
Dressler's stained glass windows for First Nazarene Baptist Church in Camden, NJ, were featured in an interview with the pastor, the Rev. J.A. Jones, in the Saturday, February 24, 2007, issue of the Camden Courier-Post. Click the thumbnail image (right) for
a larger view.
The Camden Courier-Post interviewed Dressler for an article on area artists, published in the July 4, 2006, issue. Click the thumbnail (left) for
a larger view.
Dressler was selected recently as one of the top 50 contemporary
African American artists by Larry Poncho Brown of Melanin
Graphics.
Fifteen
paintings by Dressler are available for sale through the ArtWorks
Gallery of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art. For additional information, please contact Gallery
Director, Sande
Maslow.