Where To Find A Ghost, an exhibit by Artist Brad Ford Smith

About this event

Digging into city archives, artist Brad Ford Smith researched true stories of mayhem, murder, and calamity in Dallas and hit the streets to document those locations with his signature sepia toned ink drawings. In 2025 these stories and drawings were published as the book Where To Find A Ghost and Other True Stories . Brad uses historic archives and old city maps to find forgotten stories of local misfortune. Once he locates a particularly intriguing story, he documents their present day appearance in small ink drawings. He notes that these are often places we pass by daily without ever realizi