Art Smith
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Art Smith holding the first Golden Boot Award
Art Smith
Puddletown Squares
Squares Across the Border
Received 10 Year Medallion at Stars & Squares Forever in 1994
- Currently lives on the big island of Hawaii
- Founder of Puddletown Squares
- Assisted in founding Squares Across the Border, and supported many other clubs in the Pacific Northwest
- Original recipient of the Golden Boot Award
- Amateur videographer at many early conventions (Star Thru The Golden Gate - ???)
- Profiled in Ten Years IAGSDC: A Collection of Pages From Our Memory Book
- Became enough of a caller to teach classes and call patter
- Put together a publication titled The Gay Square Dance Information Book about how to start and run a club
Photos
Art Smith holding the first Golden Boot Award
Art Smith and Karl Jaeckel at Promenade Along The Rockies, May 1985. Art distributes his gay square dance club “Orientation and Information” booklet.
Art Smith behind the video camera at Star Thru The Golden Gate, 1986
(L-R) Art Smith, first Golden Boot recipient, Bob Young, former IAGSDC Chair and Golden Boot recipient, James Ozanich, coordinator of the Memorial Panels, at Palm Springs Swing & Mix 2017
Art Smith being honored for his contributions to gay square dancing at Palm Springs Swing & Mix 2017
Art Smith (L) and Mario Pecunia (R) at Palm Springs Swing & Mix 2017
