Welcome to my News, Updates, & Notes from the Studio Page.
I use this page as a part blog, part sounding board about things going on in my life that inform my creative work. It is intended to offer a window in to the many avenues that fuel my creative life and the process of making artwork. I invite you to click on the entries below to learn more about me and what I do. I hope you enjoy.
A Different Kind of Freedom
Years ago, I was invited to teach drawing in a rehabilitation program for men at the Albuquerque Metropolitan Detention Center. The program was called Comienzos—“beginnings” in Spanish—a word that carried more hope than I felt as I drove out across the empty mesa west of Albuquerque.
My Juror Comments for MasterWorks of New Mexico, 2021
Summary of MasterWorks 2021 by Barbara Coleman
Interview about Art with Barbara Coleman
Albuquerque artist Barbara Coleman’s painting, “Pond Up North,” was awarded Best of Show at PAPNM’s 10th National Juried Show, held November 2–30, 2018, at the Sorrel Sky Gallery in Santa Fe. Barbara, a full-time artist and former drawing professor at the University of New Mexico, has enjoyed a life-long love affair with art. This interview occurred November 12, 2018 in her studio.
