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Jane Noel Goodman-Smith has an extensive background in fine art and graphics. As a professional artist Jane has worked in and directed Television Art Departments. Her work includes:
Portraits
Logos
Sales Brochures
Courtroom Sketches
TV Guide Ads
Architectural Renderings
Furniture Renderings
Movie Cards
News Visuals
Business Cards
Awards and Plaque Design
Set Design
On-Air Scripting
Adult and Student Classes
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4th Grade Picture |
Jane's grade school
teachers noticed she
had a flair for art
as she excelled in class.
As a 4th grader, she
began taking private
lessons with
Mrs. Irene Poppe,
a Classically trained,
European Fine Artist,
who fled from Poland
with her family to
America to escape
the Hitler Regime.
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She escaped from Poland in 1939
bringing to art students
in America the European,
Classical Style of art instruction
Each child moved at
their own pace and
worked in their
own areas of interest.
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Mrs. Irene Poppe, Jane's First Art Teacher |
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Today, Jane teaches in the Apprenticeship Style that she learned as a child. Each child is shown how to develop sketching techniques that coordinate the eye and hand. Students obtain accurate perspective, shadowing and dimension.
After the basics, every child works on something different, in their own field of interest. This propels the project to completion, ready to frame.
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Jane completed a Graphics and Advertising program in college and moved with her husband to Champaign, Illinois. She was a member of the art department for WCIA Midwest Television.
Her duties included:
courtroom sketches, on-air promotions, TV Guide ads,
customized sales brochures, set designs, movie cards,
logos and fashion drawings.
Memories that stand out are designing the set for the Jerry Lewis Telethon that Morey Amsterdam of the Dick Van Dyke Show hosted and contracting with the Associated Press for national distribution of her courtroom sketches for a High Profile trial in Chicago.
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Jane at WCIA Midwest Television |
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Jane's Creation Station |
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Chicago...Our Backyard |
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Concert and Dinner with Doc Severinsen |
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WGGT Channel 48 On Fire |
This newspaper clip showed
the intense flames shooting
out the 2nd story of
Channel 48 as it burned
on a cold winter night.
This photo was of the
room next to the art studio.
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Even after the intense fire,
there was only water damage
to Jane's office.
Interesting enough, the office
next to the art studio
was so hot that the
wall mounted phone melted,
and stretched to the floor
like a burnt marshmellow.
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The Art Studio of WGGT Channel 48 |
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Jane Noel Goodman-Smith |
After moving back to North Carolina,
Jane was the Art Director
for WGGT 48 and was contracted
by WFMY Channel 2 to do
their courtroom sketching.
Jane made the decision to leave
the television art world
when the Smith family began
to expand with their own children.
Jane began sharing her artistic
gift in the early 1990's
by teaching children and adults
how to draw.
She enjoys experiencing her students'
uniqueness in personality,
while taking them down the
art road as far as they wish to go.
Some of her alumni have won
National Competitions in
Student Portraits and taken
Design Positions in
New York City and Italy.
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Jane has studied with these notable artists:
Linda Weaver
Resident portrait artist in Reynolda Village
Basil Baylin
New York native and member of the American Portrait Artists Society
Michael Boch
Graduate of the Angel Academy of Arts in Italy
George Thompson
New York Illustrator
Abbe Rose Cox
Local Portrait Artist
Carolyn Blaylock
Local landscape impressionist
Jonathan Hayes
Industrial illustrator
Frank Rowland
National impressionist with works in Chicago and New York Galleries
Ivan Sahba
Native of Russia, a descendant of the original Zaporozhye Sech Cossacks, whose artistry flourished in Europe before relocating to the United States
Jane continues to be a student, learning from her students everyday.
Jane is a member of the National Broadcast Designer's Association
and the Muddy River Art Association in the Piedmont Triad.
www.muddyriverart.org
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