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David Smith

Host of David and Art

David Smith, host of David and Art, is an American historian with broad interests in his field.  He’s been at Baylor University since 2002 teaching classes in American history, military history, and cultural history.  For eight years he wrote an arts and culture column for the Waco Tribune-Herald, and his writings on history, art, and culture have appeared in other newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Morning News.

The very first record he remembers listening to when he was little was Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic’s recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and that set him on a lifelong path of loving music and the arts.  He’s loved history for almost as long, and finally saw them come together in his career.  He believes that history illuminates the arts and the arts illuminate history—that they co-exist and are best understood together.

  • In this week's edition of David and Art, we continue to explore how culture shapes the identity of place, in particular the social value and impact of public art. Here's your host, David Smith
  • In this week's edition of David and Art, we continue to explore how culture shapes the identity of place, in particular the social value and impact of public art. Here's your host, David Smith
  • In this week's edition of David and Art, we’ll explore how culture shapes the very identity of a place—from the highways of Texas to a pub in Scotland—and how art fits into all of it. Here's your host, David Smith.
  • In this week's edition of David and Art, we’ll explore how culture shapes the very identity of a place—from the highways of Texas to a pub in Scotland—and how art fits into all of it. Here's your host, David Smith.
  • What if a painting didn’t just capture a moment of action—but instead asked you to slow down and simply be? With this week's edition of David and Art on 103.3, Waco Public Radio, here's David Smith.
  • What if a painting didn’t just capture a moment of action—but instead asked you to slow down and simply be? With this week's edition of David and Art on 103.3, Waco Public Radio, here's David Smith.
  • In this week's edition of David and Art, we hear a story that is a reminder that public arts funding has a lasting impact—one that might be shaping the next great artist right now. Host David Smith takes a look at the latest round of NEA grants and the communities they’re helping to inspire.
  • In this week's edition of David and Art, we hear a story that is a reminder that public arts funding has a lasting impact—one that might be shaping the next great artist right now. Host David Smith takes a look at the latest round of NEA grants and the communities they’re helping to inspire.
  • An English artist has always pushed the boundaries of art, and now, at 88, he's doing it with something you might not expect. In this week's edition of David and Art, host David Smith explores the artist's latest work and how technology is changing the way he creates.
  • An English artist has always pushed the boundaries of art, and now, at 88, he's doing it with something you might not expect. In this week's edition of David and Art, host David Smith explores the artist's latest work and how technology is changing the way he creates.