Artist Profile
Barbara Martin Smith, MFA
135 Jefferson Road, Webster Groves, MO 63119
(314) 961-6047
Artist Statement: Rhythms of the process of creating are constant as well as ever changing. Omnipotence is present in these rhythms like a friend. When I retreat to my studio to paint, I carry this friend with me. Working with the fluidity of transparent watercolor on handmade paper parallels the seen and unseen, known and unknown, foreseen and recalled qualities of subject which emerge during the painting process. Each painting comes from within linking me with the past and the future. Each is a deliberate engagement with all that is mysterious and beautiful.
Art Awards:
2008 Watercolor Missouri National, Winston Churchill Memorial Anson Cutts Gallery, Fulton, Mo, Bill James, AWS, NWS, juror of selection
2007, Award Of Excellence “Rivers of Color”, Creative Gallery, St. L., MO. Seventh Saint Louis Watercolor Society Exhibit George James AWS, juror
2006, Juror’s Choice Award “Spring into Watercolor”, Creative Gallery, St.L., MO. Sixth Saint Louis Watercolor Society Exhibit. Skip Lawrence, AWS juror
2005 Schnucks Award, Big Splash, STLWS Annual Membership Exhibition
2004 Dick Blick Award, Big Splash, STLWS Annual Membership Exhibition
2004 Signature Member Saint Louis Watercolor Society
1978-79 Artist in Residence/Artist in the Schools, Indiana Arts Commission & National Endowment for the Arts, U.S Department of Education & Indiana Department of Education
1975 Bunn Dillard Long Award for Excellence in Art and Design, SIUE
1975 Annual Graduate Award, SIUE
1974 - 1975 Graduate Fellowship, SIUE
Art Education Awards:
2006, 2007, 2008 Marquis Who’s Who in American Education
1997 Dedicated Service Award, the Network of Sacred Heart Schools
1996 International Woman of the Year in Recognition of her services to Art Education by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England
1992 First Art Education Delegation to Japan, People to People Eisenhower Professional Exchange
1988 Artists Seminar for the Advancement of Art Education at the Rhode Island School of Design
1974 -1975 Sabbatical Leave, Ladue Community School Corporation, Ladue, Mo. 63124
Recent Exhibits:
2007 Jerry Ellis, juror, St Louis Artist Guild, The Race is On
2007 David Coolidge, juror, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Warm Washes/Cool Colors,
2006 STLWS Signature Members Exhibit, Norton’s Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2003 - 2007 STLWS Juried Exhibit at the Creative Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 -2006 STLWS Signature Members Exhibit, St. Louis Artist’s Guild
2004 SCAPES, Retrospective Exhibit, Monday Club, Webster Groves, MO
Selected Past Exhibits:
1986 Drawings and Prints, St. Louis Artist Guild, Clayton, MO
1983 NOVA Wearable Art, Kuban Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1982 Focus Fiber, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1979- ‘81 Art Rental and Sales Gallery, the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Ill.
1979 SCAPES, Drawings and Fiber, Michigan City Community Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
1977 Watercolors and Batiks, Mary Institute, Ladue, MO
1977 Marietta Crafts National, Marietta, OH
1975 Irish Watercolors, Monday Club, Webster Groves, MO.
1975 M.F.A. Thesis: SCAPES
Communications Building, SIUE, Edwardsville, ILL
Related Professional Activity:
Bullivant Gallery, fine art publishing 314 865 0077 www.bullivantgallery.com
1100 Lami Street, ST. Louis, MO 63104-4204
Saint Louis Watercolor Society, St. Louis, MO President 2004 - 2006,
Board of Directors 2002 - 08 SaintLouisWatercolorSociety.org
(Mission: to educate the membership and to bring art to the community)
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Docent
(Job: to serve visitors by interpreting the collection and special exhibits)
The Saint Michael School, Clayton, MO Trustee
(Role: to serve on the Education and the Public Relations Committees)
Memberships: Portrait Society of America, American Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society, Missouri Watercolor Society, Saint Louis Artists Guild, St Louis Art Museum
Art Education:
M. F. A. 1975 Fiber and Fabric Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.
Education:
M.A, 2002 International Affairs, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
B.A. 1967 Intellectual European History, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI