After a 32-year career as a music teacher in Perry County, Andy Smith operates Visual Realia, a clay monoprint studio. This unusual medium combines techniques from both pottery and printmaking, using colored clay slips to design a work on a slab of clay before transferring it to its final surface. Numerous examples filled several solo exhibitions from 2021 to the present.Other projects include working as an arts “navigator” to aid creative entrepreneurs with the grant writing process. In addition, 2022 marked the creation of Culture On The Line, an online home for documenting the area’s cultural highlights, creators, and artists.Andy is a past president of the Hanover Area Arts Guild and currently a board member of the Guthrie Library in Hanover and the Adams County Farmers Market in Gettysburg. He also serves as Acting Board President for the newly formed Ophelia's Making Agency in York.Other interests include photography, wildflower gardening, food, his various communities, and an occasional pun.To contact Andy, email him at ostman4200@comcast.net.