Meet Monet
Monet Coppersmith, known as Monet Moon in the art and game world, was born in Layton, Utah, in 2003. She has eight siblings and four parents in total. Growing up in a blended family taught Monet a lot about patience and love. She moved to Colorado to live with her mother and spent much of her adolescent years in Denver.
She later moved to Magnolia, Arkansas, to attend high school and stayed to attend college at Southern Arkansas University. Here, she studied Graphic Design and Studio Art, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a minor in History in just four years. While in college, she was involved in the Honors College, Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority, the school’s design club, and competed on the SAU Fortnite esports team and served as the captain. She also served as a model house representative for the Arkansas Academy for Public Service, competed in the Miss SAU Scholarship Competition, winning Miss Congeniality, and was on the 2024 Homecoming Court.
In her free time, she loves to read and write, play video games and Dungeons and Dragons, and rock out on her bass guitar. She has a special interest in ornithology and quantum chromodynamics, and spends much of her time down Wikipedia rabbit holes.
Artist Biography
Her first major body of work was titled Trepidation and centered around how anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions can make you feel isolated from society and reality. Her second body of work was titled Upcycling and explored how we can take items usually seen as “trash” and up-cycle, transforming them into something new, including wearable pieces of art.
While in college, she has had the opportunity to explore and learn new mediums, and dive into the techniques and methods of those art forms. Her first ceramics research series, titled Curves in Nature, explored the occurrence of soft and delicate edges in organic forms. Her second ceramics research series, titled Ornithology: An Exploration Into the Elegance of Birds, was a study and exploration into the elegance, beauty, and variety of avian species.
For one of her latest series, she chose to create six acrylic paintings titled "Contradiction In Religion." Through this work, she wanted to address the way she viewed the Bible as a child and how it affected her outlook on life growing up. Her latest series is a work in progress, titled Subatomic, and is a digital exploration into the subatomic particles that make up all ordinary matter in the universe.
