Jeffrey Smart Baisden, CPSA is an Artist and Instructor. She was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, grew up in the Florida panhandle and graduated from Florida State University with a degree in art education. Following a move to Live Oak, Florida in 1974 to teach high school art, she developed a fine arts program teaching grades 9-12, Advanced Placement and adult painting. Jeffrey exhibited her artwork in regional exhibitions on weekends. Discovering Prismacolor pencils in 1980 as a valuable teaching tool, she began exploring the medium along with her students In 1992, she resigned from public school to devote full time to drawing, exhibitions and teaching workshops Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as twenty-five Colored Pencil Society of America International Exhibitions.
