Barbara Romain

 
 

Barbara Romain is a visual, performing and teaching artist who is legally blind. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Washburn Gallery and Union station in Washington D.C. In 2005 her "visual music" paintings were on display in a solo exhibit, BAD EYE ON THE GOOD FOOT at the ART Around Gallery in Philadelphia, and a 2-person show DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE/WRITING ON THE WALL was exhibited at the Satsuma Gallery in North Hollywood, CA. She is a Teaching Artist Fellow for Very Special Arts, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and a two-year Artist in Residence for the City of Los Angeles Department of cultural Affairs where her project WHAT'S IN A NAME, with collaborator Mira-Lani Bernard was exhibited at The Workmen's Circle in June, 2007. Barbara and Mira-Lani are cofounders/directors of ART OPTIONS, an award-winning and unique interdisciplinary arts education program for inner city students. Barbara currently is a member of the Art & visual Design Faculty at Columbia College Hollywood, a film school in Tarzana, CA, where she has taught for several years. She also studies piano and ceramics at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles.

 

ABout the ARTIST

UPCOMING EVENTS:


CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS:


“OUT THERE”

Gallery 825, Los Angeles

Opens June 7, 2998


“DERIVATIVE COMPOSITIONS”

Terrace Gallery, John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts

Washington D.C.

June 19 - July 20 2008


“SPEAKING VOLUMES/TRANSFORMING HATE”

The Holter Museum, Helena Montana

January 25-April 2008

Subsequent Montana and national tour


“SHARED VISIONS”

Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton, CA

Setptember 2007-august 2008


“ART BEYOND SIGHT”

Philadelphia Central Library, Logan Square

January 2008

Moore College of Art, Philadelphia

Summer 2008


“COMMON GROUND FESTIVAL”

VSarts Teaching Artist Fellows present workshop

Albany, New York

April 9-11 2008   




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