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Deborah Barr Professor of Fine Arts - Painting and Drawing
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DEBORAH BARR
EDUCATION 2001 NATIONAL ACADEMY
OF DESIGN - New York, NY - Mural Scholarship/training 1998 MASTER OF FINE ART
- Painting, San Jose State University -
Academic Honors 1995 BACCALAUREATE
DEGREE; Painting, Mills College, Oakland, Ca. Academic Honors 1991 AA DEGREE -
Fine Arts, Las Positas College, Livermore, Ca.
Academic Honors
Forthcoming
Exhibitions 2011 - SOLO Exhibition - Dayton Visual Arts Center - DOMESTIC MEDITATIONS 2. Dayton, Ohio; May 12 -June 17 2011 - SOLO Exhibition - Modesto Junior College Art Gallery - DRAW THE LINE Modesto, California; October 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 – YWCA Student Lounge Berkeley Ca. --
Jan. Feb. March 2007 Lisa Lodeski Fine Arts Aliso Viejo, Ca. May 19
- June 23 2005 Napa Valley College - Napa Ca. Nov 11 - Dec 14
2005 Modesto Junior College - Modesto, Ca. March 3
-24 2005 American River College - Sacramento Ca. Jan -Feb 2004 Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas,
NV
- Oct -Nov 2003 Merced Multicultural Center - Merced, Ca. - Oct
- Dec
2003 Stanford
University - Stanford, Ca. - July -
Sept 2001 Cafe Sumatra - Solo exhibition - Twain Hart,
Ca. Oct 2001 Colombia College - Solo exhibition - Colombia,
Ca. Sept 2001 Merced College - Solo exhibition - Merced, Ca.
- April -May 2000 Benicia Public Library,
Benicia, Ca. -- Jan 11 - Feb 14 1999 Centro Colombio Americano, Medellin,
COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA- Feb. 10 - Mar 13
1998 French
Cultural Center, Nairobi, Kenya AFRICA
Jan 12 - 23,
1997 Danville
Fine Arts Gallery,
Front Street
Danville, Ca Jan 11 - Feb. 22,
1996 Phoenix
Cultural Center, Moscow, RUSSIA
Nov.
1 - 26, 1996
1996 Pacific
Bell Corporate Offices,
San Ramon, Ca.
April 1- 30,
1995 Beyond
The Bench, Conference,
Parcs Hotel;
Oakland, Ca.
MURALS & PUBLIC COMMISSIONS 2008
Modesto Junior College; Mural site specific, New Auditorium Entry:
August 2008 2008
Kaiser Hospital - Murals - site specific for Hospital entry: June
2008 2006
Modesto Junior College - Fireside Lounge mural -8h’ x 16’ w 2004 Lake
Don Pedro Elementary School -
Mural
- 8’h x 40’ w 2003
Colombia College - Automotive mural - Colombia, CA 2001 Public
art mural Community Bus Station - Planada, CA 2000
Sobrato Family Living Center - 10" x 15" mural with homeless
children 1998 - 1999, San Jose Arts Council & The San Jose
University Foundation - collaboration - 1998 - 1999, San Ramon Marketplace - Art in Public places - Central Attractions - 1999 San Leandro Ca. - mural 20' x 40' collaboration with youth - probation - Juvenile
Hall
TWO - FOUR PERSON
EXHIBITIONS 2007 Irvine Fine Art Center; Irvine, Ca July 29 - Sept. 8 Site specific installation 2006 Exploding Head Gallery 924 12th Street, Sacramento, Ca. Nov-Dec
2006 Benchmark Mortgage Company Santa Ana, Ca; May 17 - July 10 2005 Artists Resource Group - Corona del Mar, Ca -
Sept - Nov 2001 National Academy of Design - New York, NY
- Sept 2001 MATRIX Gallery - Four person exhibit - Sacramento,
Ca. - Nov 2001 Sinclair College - Three person exhibition - Dayton,
Ohio - Mar -April 2000 SOMARTS - Three person Exhibition -
San Francisco,
Ca. - Mar 7 - 25 2000 Bridge Center Gallery - Three person exhibit -
El Paso Texas
- Feb 24 -Mar 31 1998 INTRODUCTIONS 98
Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts; San Francisco, Ca July 9 - Aug. 5 1995 Pacific Bell Corporation, Corporate Offices; San
Ramon, Ca. July 1 - Aug 18 GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 - CCAA Mistlin Gallery - Modesto Ca May 8 - June 24 2009 - Art Faculty Exhibition - Modesto Junior College - Modesto, Ca. Sept. 9 -- Sept. 24, 2009 2009 Group Exhibition - Hollingsworth Gallery - ALCHEMY: OBJECT TRANSFORMED. Palm Coast, Florida 2008
Chico Art Center - All Media 08 - A National juried exhibition -- Chico, Ca 2006 Modesto Junior College Faculty Exhibition - Modesto, Ca. October 1 - 23 2003 Pretty Lies, Dirty Truths BC Space, Jan 24 - April 31, Laguna Beach, Ca
2001 Merced College Faculty exhibition - August
2000 Colombia College Faculty exhibition - Aug 13
- Sept 13, 1999 San Jose State Multicultural Center, RISING
a Multimedia Exhibition - Dec 1999 1999 Danville Fine Arts, World View Ethnic Diversity
- Oct 4 - Nov 3 1999 1999 Heritage Bank, San Jose Ca. - SJSU Faculty and
Alumni - May 6th - July 6, 1999 1999 Center for the Visual
Art, Oakland, Ca.; Five perspectives on the Global Child; Mar 4-27 1998 Applied Global University - SJSU Faculty and Alumni - July 15 1998 - Feb
15, 1999 1998 The Center for Visual Art, THE LIGHT IS DIVERSE IN
CALIFORNIA
"The light and the Altar" juror:
Enrique Chagoya May 3 -June 7 1998 1997 California Museum Of Art, Ca. SMALL WORKS Oct 15 -
Dec. 21, 1997 Woman Made Gallery
MAKING WAVES Oct. 3 - 24 Chicago
Ill. 1997 CAL EXPO ... California Works, Juried; State Fair Aug 16, - Sept 2, 1997 South Bay Women's Caucus, Lynn House Gallery; Antioch, Ca. Juror: Lisa Lodeski 1997 Napa Valley College Gallery, BAY AREA ART, Jurors: Rene
de Rosa, John Hannaford 1997 Gallery On The Rim, WHISPERS, 333 3rd St. SF. Ca. April 2, - May 3, 1996 Lynn House Gallery, Antioch, Ca Sept. 12 - Oct, 24, Juror, Lisa Lodeski 1996 CAL EXPO .. Juried; State Fair "No Evil"
Aug 16, - Sept 2, Juror; Mike Henderson 1996 "I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, Galaria Tonantzin
San Juan Bautista, Ca.
May 23 - June 29 1996 "Behind The
Wire" Juror: Anne Brodzky 1996 Whispers, Gallery On The Rim, S.F., CA April 2 - 25 333
3rd St "Target The Question"
1995 Center For the Visual Arts, Oakland; Aug 6th -
Sept. 12th 1995 "THE WOMEN'S SHOW", July 15 - Aug 26
Danville Fine Arts Gallery 233 Front St,
Danville, CA "Behind The
Wire" & "Gun Crazy" Juror:
Carrie Lederer TEACHING EXPERIENCE Full time Professor
- Modesto Junior College - Hire date 8/2004 2003 - 04 - Instructor
- Modesto Junior College 1999 - 03 - Instructor
- Colombia College 2001 - 04 - Instructor -
Merced College 1996 - 01 - Instructor
- San Jose State University
Lectures Given 2003 - Savannah School of Art and Design - Savannah,
Georgia Mar 31, 2002 2003 - Central Michigan University - Mount
Pleasant MI. Mar 19 2003 2002 - Assistance League of Tustin --Tustin, Ca - Oct. 28, 2002 - Promoting yourself as an artist seminar -Livermore, Ca June 1, 2001 - Nation Woman’s Caucus for the Arts
-Conference, Chicago, Illinois Feb. 25, 2000 - Bridgecenter Gallery - El Paso, Texas
- Feb 24, 2000 - Benicia Public Library - Benicia,
Ca - Jan 23 1999 - Superior Court; Casa Program - Oakland, Ca - April 17,
1999 - Universitario Antiquoria Museo -Medellin,
Colombia, South America - Feb 9,
1999 - Centro Colombo Americano - Medellin,
Colombia, South America - Feb 12,
1999 - Institute Bella Artista -Medellin,
Colombia, South America -Feb 10, 1998 - San Jose State University - Women in Art;
San Jose, Ca - April 14,
1998 - International University, Nairobi, Kenya,
Africa - Jan 1998 - French Cultural Center, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa - Jan 1998 - Bura Bura Art Institute, Nairobi, Kenya,
Africa - Jan 1998 - Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya,
Africa - Jan
1997 - Mills College, Oakland, Ca - Feb 23,
1997 - Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, Ca
- Jan 28, 1996 - Youth Institute, Moscow, Russia, Nov
22, 1996 - F.A.B. Organization, Moscow, Russia,
Nov 14, 1996 - Moscow Art Institute, Moscow, Russia,
Nov 12, 1996 - NAN Foundation, Moscow, Russia -Nov
5,
AWARDS 1995 Liquitex
- International Excellence in Art Award 1995 National
Council of Family Relations; Coral Gables, Florida (Feminism and Family Studies)
SCHOLARSHIPS 1998 Helen
Dooley Art Department Scholarship San Jose
State University 1997 Viola Palmer Memorial
Scholarship San Jose State University 1996 Viola Palmer Memorial
Scholarship San Jose State University 1996 San Jose State University Art Department
Scholarship 1994 Mills College Scholarship 1993 Mills College Scholarship
Works in the collection of: KAISER Hospital; Modesto, Ca. Modesto Junior College; Modesto, Ca Kris Pitts -
Sacramento Ca. Melissa Wackerman, Santa
Ana, Ca Jeannie Diradoorian, Santa
Ana, Ca Catherine Konop, Santa
Ana, Ca Craig Ratcliffe, Santa
Ana, Ca Brett Floyd, Tustin, Ca Paula Davidson, Discovery
Bay, Ca Dr. Jonathan Weidenbaum,
San Ramon, Ca
Mike and Lisa Archuletta,
Warwick, New York Raymond Ashley, San Jose,
Ca Lisa Lodeski, San Ramon, Ca Sharon Krause, Danville,
Ca Steven Tome Nyang'ate, Nairobi, Kenya Margaret Safari, Nairobi ,
Kenya MAPP Coalition, Oakland,
Ca Dori Sassin, San Ramon, Ca
ART RELATED
EXPERIENCE 1997-
01 I was the US representative for the
Bevey-Gate International Youth Programme Heal The World, project based
in Nairobi, Kenya. Heal The World,
is a programme which focuses on creating and
promoting awareness on issues surrounding our environment, wildlife, and the lives of
street children in contemporary African societies. 1997 -05 I
was the US representative for the Russian based project Children's Dreams,
an international traveling art and concert
exhibition. Children's Dreams is
a charitable international project to support gifted, orphaned, disabled and homeless
children in both Russia and America.
1996
- 1999 I was the officially designated U.S.
representative for the organization "Wings Of The World", an
idea which originated in Russia that is intended to bring attention and assistance to the
needs of children around the world. This
project involves the transformation of a military plane through the application of
children's art, changing it from an image of military might to a manifestation of world
unity and peace through the power of children's dreams
It will focus on the need to guard and protect the world's children, and to defend
their mental and physical health through positive action.
Bibliography: 2009 KONK AM - Radio interview ART TECH TALK - July 10th 2008 Modesto
Bee - Special Edition - Kaiser Hospital 2007 The Pirate’s
Log; Deborah Barr: professor, artist,
humanitarian; by Leo Daddario
2004 Modesto Bee -
Portrait
of the artist as a young woman - By Lisa Millegan;
11/03/04 2003 Merced Sunstar - Merced Multicultural Center
presents paintings by Deborah Barr - 9/27/03 2001 Union Democrat - Artist Seeks Justice
through Imagery; Jim Leitzell -9/27/01 2001 Merced SunStar - Paintings by Deborah Dague -- 4/2001 2000 Solono Times, Artist Draws The Viewer into her
Paintings; Cathy Jacobson 1/20/00 2000 Benicia Herald, Artist/Activist exhibit heading
to the Holy Land; Richard Solono 1/12/00 1999 Oakland Tribune, Vibrant Mural Helps Teens
Express Hopes and Fears; Jeanie Wakeland 6/13 1999 SBAWCA Newsletter; "Five Perspectives
of the Global Child" San Jose, Ca.; 1999 Medellin Times - "Activist Painter focuses
on Children" Medellin, Colombia 2/16/99 1999 Radio Interview "Heartist
Activist works for Children's rights" Medellin, Colombia 1999 Television interview -"Heartist
Activist" Medellin, Colombia 2/13/99 1999 Tri - Valley Herald "Activist Painter uses art to inspire
action" 1998 Daily Nation,
Nairobi, Africa "International Children's Artist" by Tim Gitau 1/22/98 1998 Focus; Nairobi,
Africa "From USA with the Lost Innocence" 1998 Daily Nation Nairobi,
Africa edition "Standing up for
Children's Rights" 1998 Tri -Valley Herald "The
World is Her Canvas" By Monique Beeler
1/5/98 1997 San Ramon Valley Times "Artist Bound for
Kenya with focus on Children" 1997 San Ramon V T
"Artist Focuses Her Work On
Threatened Innocence"
By Linda Davis 1/10/97 1997 San Ramon V T "Artists Work Draws On Grim
Children's Issues" 1997 Diablo Magazine "Banned Art - Wake Up and
Smell the Violence" by Lisa Trottier:
1996 Nightclub News Moscow
"Californian Artist/Activist Calls Attention To Children's "Small World" 11/14/96 1996 Business Daily in Moscow "Artist Represents
Brutality To Awaken Compassion" 1996 Moscow Times -- Happenings and Exhibits at
The Phoenix Gallery 1996 Tri -Valley Herald
Editorial "Art Should Raise Issues" 11/21/96 1996 Tri -Valley Herald "Artists
Message Is Tough To Take" by Doug Campbell 10/24/96 1996 The Ledger Dispatch Antioch "Piece de
resistance" By Lauria Orella
5/16/96 1995 San Ramon Valley Times "Danville exhibit of
Women's work" 8/14/95 1995 Valley Times "Social Studies" By David Goll
6/13/95 1994 Tri -Valley Herald "Artist Targets Teens, Family" by Emily Bazelon 4/5/94 |