Barbara Earl Thomas

Ep.96 features Barbara Earl Thomas. She is a visual artist with numerous national exhibits to her credit. She is a maker who builds tension-filled narratives through papercuts and prints, placing silhouetted figures in social and political landscapes. Thomas is known for her large-scale installations that use light as the animating force and invites her viewers to step inside her illuminated scenographies. Barbara’s works are included in the collections of the Seattle, Tacoma and Portland Art Museums, Chrysler Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington State and Seattle City public collections. Barbara has art projects for Seattle’s Sound Transit stations and Yale University. She received her BA and MFA from the University of Washington School of Art. She currently has two major exhibits on view; Geography of Innocence at the Seattle Art Museum, and a collaborative exhibit with New York based artist, Derrick Adams, Packaged Black at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. Photo credit: Jovelle Tamayo Artist https://barbaraearlthomas.com/ Seattle Art Museum https://thomas.site.seattleartmuseum.org/ Claire Oliver Gallery https://www.claireoliver.com/artists/barbara-earl-thomas/ Seattle Met https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2021/03/barbara-earl-thomas-jacob-lawrence-sam-seattle-art-museum-shows-2021-american-struggle-geography-of-innocence Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/between-fragility-and-strength-barbara-earl-thomas-interviewed/ Henry Art https://henryart.org/exhibitions/packaged-black University of Washington https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2022-02/poetics-barbara-earl-thomas Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/barbara-earl-thomas-the-geography-of-innocence-exhibit-at-sam-invites-transformation/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Earl_Thomas