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My car was on Church Street ten blocks north of the World Trade Center where I usually parked when I came into the city. I glanced down the wide avenue to see the towers gleaming in the early morning light. I got into my car at 8:30 on Sept. 11th to make the long drive back to Vermont.
On the FDR Drive I switched on the radio. I wasn’t even out of the city when I heard the first news that a small private aircraft had hit one of the twin towers. I can’t remember much about that four-hour trip back to Vermont. I just kept driving, listening with incredulity and fear as the extent of the disaster unfolded.
It was not until I was back in Vermont, frantically trying to reach family and friends, that I saw the first images of the collapsing towers. I wanted to be back in the city I grew up in and loved. Filled with grief and anxiety, I paced my studio feeling utterly useless.
Ten days later I returned to the city. The air still smelled of burning. Some days it was so smoky it was hard to breath. At night you could see the lights glaring out of Ground Zero. Enormous flat bed trucks lumbered up Church Street loaded with chunks of twisted metal. The fire station on North Moore was lined with flowers. I volunteered for the Red Cross and listened to friends and strangers tell their stories of where they were when it happened.
Returning to my Vermont studio in mid October, my mind filled with images of New York, I created Aftermath*, a series of twelve mixed media prints. They were my immediate response to the events of 9/11. The city that had always appeared to be solid, gritty and indestructible now seemed fragile and vulnerable.
* Six of the prints were exhibited
2002 Artists Respond, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
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Barbara Garber
227 Hickory Ridge rd.
Putney, VT 05346
www.barbaragarber.net
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015-16 Composition for a yellow wall, Public art project, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H.
2013 What we don’t even Know, Castleton Downtown Gallery, Rutland, VT
2013 drawing closer, Michael S. Currier Center, The Putney School, Putney, VT
2009 In a Different Light, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
2007 Taking Shape, site installation, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Rough Patches, site-specific wall installation, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
2004 Connecting Flight, site-specific wall installation, Burlington International Airport, Burlington, VT
2000 Between, window installation, Art in General, New York, NY
1998 Under the Wire, visual/sound installation, Mobius, Boston, MA
1998 No Spring Chicken, visual/sound installation, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
1997 Cat’s Cradle, site-specific wall installation, 50 White Street, New York, NY
1995 Drawing Out, site-specific room installation, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
1992 Recent Work, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1991 Unfolding: monoprints, Landmark College, Putney, VT
1990 Monoprints, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1984 New Work, Living/Learning Center Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1983 Air-Three, site-specific room installation, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009–10 Drawing Itself: A Survey of Contemporary Practice, Brattleboro Museum &
Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2003 Mind the Gap, Carving Studio, Rutland, VT
Noodle, site installation, Sculpturefest, Davenport Estate, Woodstock, VT
Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School (curated by Bill Jenson), New York, NY
2002 Artists Respond, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Up in the Air, Zephyr Design, Window Works Project, Brattleboro Museum &
Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2000 Generations 11, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1997 25th Anniversary Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Four Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1995 A Grand Affair, 420 West Broadway, New York, NY
1994 Not Giving Up the Ghost, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
More Than One, Johnson State College Gallery, Johnson, VT
1992 The First Decade, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Poetry and Process: Nine Abstract Painters, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, and The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Four Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Five Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1986 The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Regional Show, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1984 WCA 84 National Exhibition, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1983 Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1982 Choice Too, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Women’s Art Women’s Lives, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
1982 Fifth Anniversary Show, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1981 A Class Portrait, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
1980 Small Works, New York University, New York, NY (honorable mention)
1978 Spring Show, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1974 Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Point of View: 19 Women, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
New Talent, Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS
2011 Visiting artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2007 Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
2004 Residence Fellowship, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India
2000 Residence Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2000 Artist Development Grant, Vermont Arts Council
1990 Residence Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
1984 Arts Council of Windham County Grant, Brattleboro, VT
1981 National Endowment for the Arts, site installation, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1978 Fellowship Grant, Vermont Arts Council
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 drawing closer, Catologue, supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council with
essay by Mara Williams and Bill Ramage
2007 Arlene Distler, “Taking Place,” essay brochure for A.I.R. Gallery
2000 Vermont Arts Council, Artist Register, cover: No Spring Chicken, Helen Day Art Center
2000 Parnassus, Poetry in Review, vol. 24, no. 2, reproduction of site installation, Melting Point
1995 Peter Gallo, Art New England, 1995 Dec./Jan. 1996 issue
1994 Corrine Robins, catalog essay, “Not Giving Up the Ghost,” New York, NY
1993 Parnassus, Poetry in Review, vol. 18, no. 2 & 19, no.1, reproduction of painting, “Tunnel”
1991 Brattleboro Reformer, “Artist and Metal Worker Collaborate on Painting”
1982 New Drawing in America, 1977–1982, Martha Beck and Marie Keller, eds.
1981 Arts Magazine, October issue, reproduction of site installation at Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1974 Contemporary Reflections, catalog, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1974 Point of View: 19 Women, catalog, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
EDUCATION
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
M.A. New York University
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
TEACHING
2003 Collaborative workshop with Landmark College Dance Department, Putney, VT
2000 Visiting Artist, Queens College Graduate Program in Studio Art, Queens, NY
1980–95 Instructor of Painting and Drawing, Community College of Vermont, Brattleboro, VT
1997–99 Art Faculty, Photography Elective, Genesis at Brandies University,
Waltham, MA
1994–96 Artist-Teacher/Field Faculty, MFA in the Visual Arts, Vermont College of Norwich, Northfield, VT
1993–99Printmaking Tutorials, External Degree Program, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
1995 Panel: An Overview of Installation Art, with Linda Scherer, director, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1994 Visiting Artist, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
1992 Visiting Artist, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1985 Lecture, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, VT
1982–84 Artists’ Coordinator, Vermont Visions Lecture Series, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, Labanon, NH.
Latchis Hotel, Brattleboro, VT.
New Haven Savings and Loans, New Haven, CT
Prudential Insurance Company, New York, NY
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Judge Fredrika Smith, Miami, FL
Dr. and Mrs. Joel Allison, New Haven, CT
Drs. Barbara and Richard Almond, Palo Alto, CA
Dr. Judith Cobb and Larry Hurst, New York, NY
Kathy Villacorta, Boca Rotan, FL
Charles Pierson, London, England