About Arthur G. Smith

Arthur G. Smith is an entertainment professional with more than eighteen years of experience in the industry. As the founder and president of AGS Media, Inc., a talent management firm for creatives, personalities, and brands, Arthur makes it his mission to bring great artists and their work to the public. As a talent manager, Arthur has managed many leading personalities in fine art, film, and television, including Erica Ash, Deborah Riley Draper, Shanequa Gay, RonReaco Lee, and Jessie T. Usher. His brand management experience includes managing celebrity engagement for such clients as AT&T, Chrysler, Delta Air Lines, Dillard University, PepsiCo, and State Farm. That included working directly with Anthony Anderson, Michael Ealy, Jamie Foxx, Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jurnee Smollett, Jussie Smollett, and Terrence J.

Arthur founded the Entertainment Marketing Special Interest Group (SIG)—the first of its kind in the seventy-one-year history of the Atlanta chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA). He also served as a creative consultant for the development of Adly, the celebrity advertising tech platform.

He is an alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University, where he was elected student body president & served on the board of trustees, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Arthur remains an avid long-distance runner, art collector, and a Circle member & patron of Friends of African American Art at the High Museum of Art. An Atlanta native and resident, he is the proud father of Khalid, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California.