Past Appearances
10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss 2012
26″ W X 48″ T X 28″ D Mixed Media, Rescued chair, drift wood, zebra mussel, taconite, Pual Bunyan plate, plaid fabric
In the artwork “10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss” I employed a methodology I call “recordari”, from the Latin “to remember, call to mind (re-restore and cor, genitive, cordis heart, understood by the ancients as the seat of judgment and memory” I would like to identify “10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss” and artworks like it, as representing our “lived experience” in visual form. I suggest we are practicing “recordari”, as “10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss” takes you on a journey which explores and records all the waterways I have visited in Minnesota. My adventuring was particularly soulful since I am a Maine native and a Franco-American. I have called Minnesota home for 17 years. Maine claims Paul Bunyan as their native son. Imagine how curious I was to view the Paul Bunyan sculpture residing in Bemidji, where the university I have worked at for a decade is located! Read More
Minnesota State Fair 2014. Won Honorable mention
WARM (Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota) critique 2014
The Found In Our Water series was created to explore the water on our planet earth. Barbara lives in the Northeast Arts District where over 1000 artists have studios and show their work. She first presented her water quality installation at a WARM (Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota) critique. Twenty-five mentors and proteges shared their reflections using the Liz Lerman critique model. WARM Videos and pictures Warm Critique Notes
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Art-A Whirl 2015
The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District hosts a a spring event which hosts over 20,000 people. The Found In Our Water series appeared at this event.
View authentic voices and pictures taken with cell phones, professional cameras and plus uncut videos from the NEMAA Art-A-Whirl Event. Please enjoy the dynamic experience and sounds of people at an art show looking, making and learning about our water.
NEMAA, Art-A-Whirl Minneapolis 2014
ArtMaking
Art-A-Whirl Selfies
Visitors
Chair Signing
Pictures
Results of Survey
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Borealis Dance Company 2016
The Borealis Dance company dances for our future again at Art a Whirl 2016
The Borealis Dance Company is a wonderful example of changing the world by collaborating across art forms. I had the honor of partnering with them on a Recovery theme in 2015.
Their interpretation of the physiological impact of addiction and detox was powerful and the poem created by one of the dancers made me weep. Chair Recovery http://bridgescreate.com/addict/
Our 2016 collaboration focuses on water quality. Borealis will be presenting their dance inspired by several of my Found in Our Water pieces at two venues May 13/14 and May 21/22 Click Here for Details http://www.borealisdance.org/
My large work focused on Lake Superior -TOTUS 1 Treasures of the Inland Sea – will be on the stage with the dancers. Did you know it is not safe to eat fish from Lake Superior?
Click Here to see the May 14th, 2016 performance At Sabes JCC. http://bridgescreate.com/totis-1-and-borealis-dance-company/
See More on Borealis collaborations. http://www.borealisdance.org/collaborations