Born October 1953 in San Francisco, Christopher Smith moved to British Columbia in 1970. He began working in glass in 1975, employed as an apprentice in the Glass Head Studio in Nelson B.C. This studio was primarily concerned with religious stained glass restoration and residential stained glass design and fabrication.
In 1975 Chris spent a semester at the Alberta College of Art, studying glass blowing under the direction of Norman Faulkner. He moved to Nanaimo in 1976, and studied...