Kaitlyn Jo Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who is currently living in Tucson where she is an MFA candidate in photography at the University of Arizona. Through digital means of production such as 3D scanning and printing, augmented and virtual reality and automation, Smith renders visible the effects of unemployment and economic decline on working class Americans. She is inspired by the manual laborers who raised her and how the housing market crash of 2008 shaped her childhood. Smith’s art has been featured in PDNedu and Don’t Smile Magazine and has shown nationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, Flower City Arts Center in Rosendale, New York, Harry Wood Gallery in Tempe, Arizona and CO-OPt Gallery in Lubbock, Texas.