Rebecca Smith Ford holds a BFA in fine art from Carnegie Mellon University (’96) and an MFA in painting from Yale University (‘98). She was the recipient of many honors and awards including residencies at both Skowhegan School of Art in Maine (’98) and The Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, MA (’99). She was included in group shows at KS Art, Kravets Wehby, Jessica Murray, Silverstein, Lombard Fried and PPOW before deciding to focus on her art gallery Bellwether, specializing in emerging artists. Ford was the owner/director of Bellwether in New York City from 1999-2009. She returned to painting in 2011 and was included in three group shows at Downing Yudain Gallery and the Flinn Gallery’s 90th Anniversary exhibition, “Looking Forward Looking Back.”

From 2014-2019 Ford was the manager of Dogwood Books and Gifts, director of the Courage and Faith Speaker Series and an occasional columnist for the Greenwich Sentinel. She is nearly finished with her first novel, a love story between a nurse and a monk based on true events and paints occasionally. She has become an avid student of Zen and is a student of Valerie Forstman and Henry Shukman at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM. She is currently contemplating how her “hand is like the Buddha’s hand,” her “leg like a donkey’s leg.”

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email becky@rebeccasmithford.com

Instagram: @becky_smith_ford

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