NORWAY — A reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. on the 8th of July. The retrospective will remain on view daily from the 9th through the 23rd of July from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Barbara’s retrospective will represent a wide variety of her work dating back to 1952; seventy-five years of oil and pastel paintings, graphic arts, pottery, spinning and weavings, collage, bird carvings, needle felting, rug hooking, and more.

Barbara grew up in Kingston, New Jersey, attended Princeton High School, and graduated from Douglass College•Rutgers University with a BFA, minoring in Art Education K-12. After moving with her husband, Arthur, and young family to Norway in 1972, she attended continuing education classes at Maine College of Art in Portland.

Barbara also mentored with the pastelist, Albert Handel, for two years and took classes from other fine pastel and oil painters throughout the United States. Shortly afterward, she started teaching oil and pastel painting to adults. The saying from John Cotton Dana, which hangs in her studio, says, “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

Barbara has been involved in the Western Maine Art Group in Norway since the mid-1970s; she first became a member, then sat on the board, and later became president of the group. In 1985 she was honored as President Emeritus by the Board of Directors of the WMAG. Barbara was one of the founders of the Main Street Gallery, 426 Main Street, which became part of the Western Maine Art Group.

In 1985, Barbara and her husband, Arthur, opened the 100 Aker Wood Frame Shop and Art Supply Store in Norway. In 1988, Barbara studied and sat for the Professional Picture Framers Association exam, which she passed. Their shop was the first in the state of Maine to have that PPFA status. Their youngest son now owns the 100 Aker Wood store, and Barbara’s husband makes all of the frames for her paintings!!!

She invites everyone to join her and celebrate her past work on the First Friday event onJuly 8. There will be light finger foods and drink.