“What does a painting need to look like?”
Barbara Romain, statement written after Bad Eye on the Good Foot, Philadelphia, 2005
2019
Bio and statement for Passionate Focus 2019
Second Sense, Chicago
Statements
2013
KHM student workshop · audio recording
Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, May 28, 2013
Interviews + Recordings
2012
Travel-funds request · Passionate Focus Outstanding Artist Award
Second Sense, Chicago
Grant Narratives
2009
Digital Story · narration transcript
“For a blind painter, the world is a feast”
Interviews + Recordings
2007
Interview transcript · Australian radio interview
Interviews + Recordings
2007
InSights 2007 artist statement · three questions
LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco
Statements
2006–07
Teaching Artist Fellowship journal notes
VSA arts · “teaching is an art form in itself”
Poems + Paint Texts
2005
Visual Music statement
The method: drawing to music, layers per instrument
Statements
2005
Ugly Beautiful series proposal
Names the small work on view at InSights 2005
Grant Narratives
2005
ARC / Durfee statement of purpose · Bad Eye on the Good Foot
Grant Narratives
2003
Biography for InSights 2003
Biographies
2003
Artist statement for VSA arts
Statements
2003
Artist statement for InSights 2003
LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco
Statements
2002–03
COLA statement and the Tree of Life proposal
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Grant Narratives
2001
Statement for Travel to the Interior
Zyrex, Inc., Alhambra
Statements
Undated
Quartet: Four Seasons proposal
Grant Narratives
Various
Paint Texts · New Paint Texts
Her original writings used as painted text
Poems + Paint Texts
Undated
New York artist statement
Written for a New York application
Statements
Undated
Late biography
Her last revision
Biographies
Undated
Getty statement
Application statement
Grant Narratives
Various
Color Haikus · eight haikus
The texts behind the Color Haikus panels
Poems + Paint Texts
Undated
“Barbara Romain describes her approach” · audio
Second Sense, Chicago
Interviews + Recordings