: "The diverse cultures of the world have always been my inspiration. I believe
it is important to know our world—the whole world— and the people in it. By experiencing other places and customs,
we put our own life into context and gain a deeper appreciation of all lives. I believe travel makes history and art, literature and architecture real. It helps us see the beauty of everyday life everywhere. As we appreciate cultural differences, we also learn that basically all people, everywhere are the same."
Education/Experience: Barbara earned a
graduate degree in Art History from Harvard University, where she was awarded
the Crite Prize in the Humanities for her research thesis on the American
artist/illustrator Frank Vincent du Mond. (She is currently working on a book about Mr. DuMond.)
She was the
founding editor and publisher of ArtsAround
Boston magazine and has written hundreds
of articles about the arts and artists for publications including American Art Review, American Style, Ceramics Monthly, FibreArts,
Sculptural Pursuits, NAACP’s New Crisis, Boston Globe, Orientations, and
other regional, national and international arts magazines. She also wrote the internationally syndicated column: ArtSmart Travels
and a bi-monthly column for Renaissance magazine. She served on the board of Winston-Salem Writers.
For more than 20 years, she instructed youths and adults in her Young Artists Studio in Massachusetts. She has also conducted workshops in printing, drawing, Asian brush painting and writing in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
She has been a gallery curator, an arts lecturer, and an award winning poet and essayist. She has walked the Great Wall of China, ridden a camel in Egypt, marveled at the Parthenon and Pantheon, climbed Machu Picchu and stood in awe of Angkor Watt in Cambodia.
In 2016, she established SouthHouse Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she participated in several art associations (Associated Artists, AFAS, Printmakers of NC), was juried member of Artworks Gallery, and exhibited in one-woman shows, including SECCA (South East Center for Contemporary Art), Duke University, Raleigh, Cary and Alamance Arts Council Galleries, Central Carolina Community College/Charlotte, Red Dog Gallery and Artworks Gallery. She received the Art Pop/Arts Council Award (Art Billboard for a year 2018), and a North Carolina/Forsyth County Arts Council Grant 2022. She exhibited at PTI International Airport in Greensboro.
She recently moved to the Aston Mills/ Media Arts area outside Philadelphia. In her new home studio, she paint and creates prints of the world around her and images from around the world. She has participated several area exhibits, as well as online juried shows. Her first PA one-woman exhibit will be held at Neumann University Oct-Dec. 2023.
Professional Memberships: (past and present)
ARTsisters (juried member)
The Boston Printmakers (juried member)
International Mezzotint Society/IMS (juried member)
American Color Print Society
MCGOPA (Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists/PA)
PrintAustin Printmakers
Oil Painters of America/ OPA (juried member)
Philadelphia Watercolor Society
Delaware Valley Art League (DVAL)
Women Painters of the Southeast (juried member)
Printmakers of North Carolina
Artworks Gallery, Winston Salem (juried member/Executive Board)
Associated Artists of Winston Salem (juried member)
The AFAS (Art for Arts Sake) Group, Winston Salem
Yadkin (NC) Arts Center, Artist Member
DADA Art Collective (juried member)
Winston Salem Writers (Board Member)
Visual Index
Art-O-Mat artist
SouthHouseStudio@gmail.com
On Facebook and Instagram @ SouthHouse Studio
Press/ News
ACPS Biennial Exhibit 2024
Neumann U. Exhibit 2023
WFDD/PBS Radio Camp Interview by Isabelle Ferguson
Southeast Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
The Boston Printmakers:
Lunaria: Carborundum Mezzotints and Haikus/ Triad City Beat
touchable moonbeams" article in Triad City Beat, March 2021
https://www.intothearts.org/post/juried-fine-art-exhibition
High Shelf Literary and Art Publication XXll, 2020 Featured Artist (pages 11-21)
www.highshelfpress.com/issuexxii
Capturing the Essence of Nature, newspaper article 2019
Simple Elegance Exhibit/ Mebane Arts Center 2019
Prints Charming: talk about printmaking at Mint Hill Arts (Charlotte, NC)
Heads up, by Lynn Felder, article about the Artpop Billboards.
Art in the Sky, Winston Salem Monthly. Article about the ArtPop Billboard winners.
PTI Art Tour/Brochure 2019
PTI-ART_WALKING_TOUR0-2018.pdf
Triad Arts Weekend, Radio Interview (NPR station WFDD). The whole hour is interesting, but if you want to hear my interview, it begins about 23 minutes in to the show. (You can move the marker to that point.) Thanks to David Ford for his usual, wonderfully comfortable interview style.
Artist Profile: Winston-Salem Journal
Thanks to Kathy Norcross Watts for this lovely Artist Profile article on me.
Artist Article: Winston-Salem Chronicle
Thanks to editor Judie Holcomb-Pack for inviting this piece.
Willard and Maple Literary and Art Magazine, XX, 2019 (pages 73-76)
