C A R O L E B A R R E R
BORN:
1949 New York City, NY
EDUCATION:
1975-77 Master of Fine Art Course Work, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1973 Master of Education, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1971 Bachelor of Science, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Expanse, Harris Harvey Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Light and Line, The Art Project, Bainbridge, WA
2013 Abstracts, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA
2010 Facets, Olympus Building, Seattle, WA
Journeys, Cancer Lifeline, Seattle, WA
2009 Refractions, La Familia Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Common and Uncommon Ground, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Portals, Esquire Deposition Services, Seattle, WA
2004 Internal and External Visions, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA
Passages, Edmonds Commissioned Art Show, Edmonds Public Library, Edmonds, WA
2003 New Paintings, Berozkina Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1994 Federal Way City Hall, City Arts Commission, Federal Way, WA
1992 Breakthrough from Dark to Light, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Ascent, Hubbard’s Gallery, Bellevue, WA
In Another Light, Eastside Mental Health, Bellevue, WA
1989 Color Currents, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
1988 Paintings, University Unitarian Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Meditative Landscapes, Elliott Bay Gallery Show, Seattle, WA
1986 Impressions, Elliott Bay Gallery Show, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Contemporary Northwest Print Invitational 2019, Juror Sam Davidson, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Ink and Print West Coast Printmaking Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Works on Paper, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Pressure Points, juror Negarra Kudumu, Seattle Print Arts National Show,
M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle, WA
Printmakers Hand IV, juror Bob Kochs, Northwind Arts Center, Pt. Townsend, WA
Northwest Meets San Francisco, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Color Print and Washington State, juror David Martin, Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, WA
Expressions West 2017, juror Katherine Chang Liu, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Coast-to-Coast East, juror Stuart Shils, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
Seasons, juror Melissa Weinman, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2016 Women’s Work, Bellevue Arts Museum Community Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Coast-to-Coast West, juror Deborah Paine, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2015 Printmaker's Hand III, juror Sam Davidson, Northwind Arts Center, Pt. Townsend, WA
Summer Impressions, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA
Visual Voices, Larson Gallery, Yakima Community College, Yakima, WA
2014 16th Annual Expressions Northwest, juror Greg Robinson, Northwind Arts Center, Pt. Townsend, WA
Women Painters of Washington Exhibition, Mirabella and Pacific Regent Galleries, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED:
2013 Arizona Aqueous XXVII, juror Judy Morris, National Watermedia Exhibition, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ
Invitational Exhibition, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge, WA
Blue, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge, WA
2012 Celebration, Schack Art Gallery, Everett, WA
Travelled: Confluence Art Gallery, Twisp, WA; Clymer Art Museum, Ellensburg, WA
Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA; Northwind Arts Center, Pt. Townsend, WA
Scott Milo Gallery Group Show, Anacortes, WA
Arizona Aqueous XXIV, juror Judy Morris, National Watermedia Exhibition, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ
2009 Arizona Aqueous XXII, juror C. Shink, National Watermedia Exhibition, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ
Of Clocks and Crows, Snohomish Arts Council Juried Show, Everett, WA
2008 National Juried Exhibition, juror Pat San Soucie, Art League of Hilton Head, Hilton Head, SC
First International Society of Acrylic Painters Online Open International Digital Show
2007 Art Happens Everywhere, juror Jeffrey Wechsler, Sr. Curator Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University,
Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
Tenth Annual International Exhibition, International Society of Acrylic Painters, San Luis Obispo, CA
National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic 54th Anniversary Annual Show, Binney & Smith Gallery, Easton, PA
The Art of Flight, Monte Cristo Hotel, Snohomish Arts Council, Everett, WA
2006 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic 53rd Anniversary Show, juror David R Brigham, Ph.D.,
Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Plano Art Association National Juried Show, juror Cathe Gill, Plano Art Association, Plano, TX
2005 An Enduring Legacy, juror David Martin, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
International Watermedia XIV, juror Katherine Chang Liu, Colorado Springs, CO
Allied Artists of America 90th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
All About Art, PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable Organization) Invitational Fine
Arts Show, Seattle, WA
Arizona Aqueous XX, National Watermedia Exhibition, juror Warren Taylor, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ
2004 Expressions of a Lifetime, juror R. Tharsing, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
International Society of Acrylic Painters Signature Show, Seattle, WA
2003 National Acrylic Painters Association Show, juror G. Brommer, Cornell Museum of Art
and History, FL
Translucent, Post Picasso Internet Juried Show, juror Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Curator of American Craft Museum, NY, NY
Arizona Aqueous XIX National Watermedia Exhibition, juror Katherine Chang Liu, Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ
2002 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic 49th Anniversary Show, Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
Art Port Townsend, juror Jim McDonald, curator Safeco Corporation Art Collection, Pt.Townsend, WA
2001 Epic Passages, juror Deborah Byrne, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA
Puget Sound Country Juried Exhibit, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Rites of Autumn, Roby King Gallery, Pt. Ludlow, WA
Eclectic Visions, Sidney Museum and Art Gallery, Pt. Orchard, WA
A Voice Like Yours, Words and Images of a Shared Sojourn with Irish Artists, Washington State Convention and
Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2000 Northwest Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, juror Peggy Weiss, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
Millennium Images, Irish American Residency, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
1999 Arts of the Terrace, juror Barbara Shaiman, Mount Lake Terrace Community Center, Mount Lake Terrace, WA
1998 Shadows: 2000, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Kirsten Gallery Juried Show, juror Nicolas Kirsten, Seattle, WA
Shoreline Arts Festival Juried Show, Shoreline, WA
1996 Pacific Gallery Artists' Juried Show, Tacoma, WA
Greenwood Art Walk, Seattle, WA
1993 Group of Nine, Room 608, Gallery for Visual and Performing Arts, Seattle, WA
Seattle Scene, jurors William Elston & M.A. Phillips, Second Story Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Artists of Fremont, Fremont Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Sprawl, Fremont Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, WA
1991 Masks of God, with Guy Anderson, St. Marks Cathedral, Seattle, WA
Art Sprawl, Fremont Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, WA
1990 Women’s Voices and Visions, Seattle International Women’s Day, Seattle, WA
Artists of Fremont, Fremont Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Sprawl, Fremont Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, WA
Ascent, Hubbard’s Gallery, Bellevue, WA
1989 Annual Tacoma Danced, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Small Steps, Phoenix Invitational, Small Steps, Phoenix, AZ
Artists of Fremont, Fremont Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Sprawl, Fremont Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, WA
1988 Steps Toward Peace, Third Avenue Gallery, Seattle, WA
Avoir Gallery Juried Show, juror Nicolas Kirsten, Kirkland, WA
Annual Night Tacoma Danced, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Artists of Fremont, Fremont Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
In Her Image, A New Space Gallery, Seattle Women’s Caucus for Art, Seattle, WA
1987 Valentine Show, Husted Gallery, Seattle, WA
Women of Darkness, Shepeaks Gallery, Portland, OR
Peace Art Juried Competition, University Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Sprawl, Fremont Library, Fremont Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, WA
1986 Artist Vendor, Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA
SELECTED AWARDS:
2019 People’s Choice Award, Locally Grown, University House, Seattle, WA
2016 Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection, Juror Deborah Paine, Curator and Collections Manager, Seattle, WA
2009 Winsor-Newton/ Colart Award, juror Margaret Bullock of Tacoma Art Museum, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2008 Artists Staying the Course: Developing Ideas Consistently, Katherine Chang Liu Lecture Series
2007 Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Award, Tenth Annual International Exhibition, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
2006 First Place-Watercolor and Acrylic & Best of Show, PAA National Exhibition, Plano, TX
Third Place Award, juror Gloria Runnings, Abstracted Landscape, Bellevue, WA
2005 Award of Excellence, juror Warren Taylor, National Watermedia Exhibition Arizona Aqueous XX, Tubac, AZ
Honorable Mention, International Watermedia XIV, juror K. Liu, Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Colorado Springs, CO
2004 First Place Award, juror Susan Jackson, Museum of Modern Art, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Juried Show, Bainbridge, WA
ADG Printing Award, Women Painters of Washington Membership Show, Anacortes, WA
2002 Choose Hope poster, SGI-USA Seattle Culture Center, Seattle, WA
2000 1 of 35 artists selected for Irish-American Residency, Centrum Foundation, Pt. Townsend, WA
1999 EATA Distinguished Service Award, Art as Process Show, Seattle, WA
1998 Best of Show, Shoreline Arts Festival Juried Show, Shoreline, WA
PUBLICATIONS:
2005 An Enduring Legacy: Women Painters of Washington 1930-2005, author/curator David Martin, Whatcom Museum of
History and Art, Bellingham, WA
2000 Journal of Visual and Literary Arts (cover and inside cover), Exhibition Magazine, Bainbridge Island Arts and
Humanities Council, Bainbridge, WA
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
A list of private and public collections is available upon request.
TEACHING VISUAL ARTS EXPERIENCE:
2015 Instructor, Printing with Plants Workshop, Corvidae Press, Pt. Townsend, WA
2013 Painting Demonstrator, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge, WA
2010 Instructor, Color Boot Camp: Essentials of Color Workshop, Georgetown Studios, Seattle, WA
2007 Guest Artist, Mountlake Terrace Elementary School, Seattle, WA
2004 Painting Demonstrator, Artists of South Whidbey, Whidbey Island, WA
1999 Show Curator & Exhibition Organizer, Art as Process Show, Seattle, WA
1991 Guest Artist, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
1990-1992 Facilitator, Women Artists Support Groups, Seattle Women’s Caucus for Art, Seattle, WA
1988 Art Instructor, Seattle Summer Arts Program, Seattle, WA
1985 Guest artist, Spiritridge Elementary School, Bellevue, WA
1985 Art Instructor, Seattle Impact Arts Program, Seattle, WA
Art Instructor, Heart To Art Program, Seattle, WA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND BOARD SERVICE:
2017-Present Member, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle, WA
2013-Present Member, Corvidae Press, Pt. Townsend, WA
2008-Present Liaison, WPW Seattle Foundation, Seattle, WA
2000-Present Member, Women Painters of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004-2017 Allied Artists of America, New York, NY
2011-2012 President of Women Painters of Washington
2011-2012 Vice President of Women Painters of Washington (WPW)
2005-2012 Signature Member of Arizona Aqueous National Association
2006-2007 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic (NSPCA)
1998-1999 Phinney Art Gallery Committee, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986-1991 Seattle Women Caucus for Art, Seattle, WA