Roy Smith lives in Royville without electricity or plumbing.  During the day he charges solar lights for nighttime use inside the van where he sleeps.   In the 1990’s Roy was featured on the television news program 20/20, and he won a racial bias law suite against the police department (in a different Colorado county).  In addition to living in the art environment he continues to build around himself, he makes found object art assemblage artworks.  From Adrienne Garbini: ca 2009 web archive of a previous art environment Roy created in New Mexico

2021 update: Roy currently lives off-site.  He uses prints I’ve sent as the base for outdoor collage works:

See also:

• News & Events: Roy Smith Featured in Folk Art Messenger Magazine
• News & Events: American Sites: Exhibition at The Range, Saguache, Colorado

External resources:

• Roy Smith Documentary (2000)
• The Life And Art Of Ramblin’ Roy Follows One Rule: Wherever You Go, There You Are
• Colorado Creatives: Roy Smith
• Roy Smith 20/20 with Connie Chung 1998