Barbara A. Kendrick, PSC

"God and other artists are always a little obscure" - Oscar Wilde

 Resume

Selected Awards:

2010

• Pastel Society of Colorado Award for Best Pastel, 30th Annual Peach Blossom Art Festival, Palisades Art Lovers, Palisades, Colorado

2009

• First Place Professional Landscapes, Palisades Art Lovers Spring Art Festival
• Judson Art Supply Award, Artists Alpine Holiday Show
• First Place and Honorable Mention, Professional Pastels; Second Place Fall Colors catagory, Montrose Visual Arts Guild Show
• Purchase Patron Award, Glenwood Springs Fall Art Festival 

2008

• First Place Professional Pastels; Grey Memorial Award for Reflections; Runner Up People's Choice Award;  Purchase Patron Award - Glenwood Springs Fall Art Festival
• Best of Show; Professional Division; First Place, Professional Division; Third Place Professional Division - Montrose Visual Arts Guild Annual Show

2007

• Montrose Visual Arts Guild Annual Show; Advanced Division; First Place and Honorable Mention - Montrose, CO

 Selected Exhibitions:

2010

• Featured artist for February and March at Around the Corner Art Gallery, Montrose, CO
• 30th Annual Peach Blossom Art Festival, Palisades Art Lovers, Palisades, Colorado
• Gateway to Imagination National Juried Show, Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM

 2009

• A Gathering of Artists Invitational Show and Sale, Montrose, CO
• Gateway to Imagination National Juried Show, Farmington Museum - Farmington, NM
• Palisade Art Lovers Spring Show, Palisades, CO
• Featured Artist for May, Around the Corner Art Gallery, Montrose, CO
• Art Happens, Pastel Society of Colorado Members Show, Grand Junction, CO
• Mile-High National 2009, Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, Longmont, CO
• New Mexico Pastel Society National Exhibition and Sale, Albuquerque
• Beyond Words Juried Exhibition and Sale, Montrose Regional Library, Montrose, CO

2008

• One-woman invitational show, Hang-Ups Fine Art Gallery - Grand Junction, CO
• Alpine Artists Holiday, National Juried Show - Ouray, CO
• Colorado Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert Invitational Art Exhibition - Montrose, CO

2007

• Gateway to Imagination National Juried Show - Farmington, NM
• Alpine Artists Holiday National Juried Show - Ouray, CO
• Montrose Regional Library Juried Art Exhibit - Montrose, CO

2006

• Convergence: Oils, Pastels, Sculpture - A 3 Person Show, Ridgway Public Library - Ridgway, CO

  Collections:

• Farmington Gateway Museum, Permanent Collection
• Alpine Bank
• XTO Energy Corporation, Houston TX
• Maxwell Peterson l.l.c, Grand Junction, CO
• Stonehouse Restaurant, Montrose, CO
• Numerous private collections

 Education:

B.A. Humanities, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Teacher Certification Program, University of Massachusetts Graduate School, Amherst

Workshops:

• Bruce Gomez Master Class - 2010
• Doug Dawson - 2009
• Desmond O'Hagan - 2008
• Sally Strand - 2008
• Hugh Greer - 2007
• Richard McKinley - 2007
• Bruce Gomez - 2008, 2007, 2006
• International Association of Pastel Societies Conference 2007 and 2009 Demonstrations by Colleen Howe, Doug Dawson, Christine Dembrowski, Leslie DeMille, Lorenzo Chavez
• Morgan Samuel Price - 2005

Teaching:

"The Water Workshop - Achieving the Illusion of Water with Pastels", June 26-27, 2010, Around the Corner Art Gallery

"Painting Dramatic Clouds in Pastel" - March 20-21, 2010, Around the Corner Art Gallery

"Spring Pastel Workshop," March 21 - 22, 2009, Around the Corner Art Gallery

"Fall Pastel Workshop" - November 7 -8 2008, Around the Corner Art Gallery

"A Day with Soft Pastels" - for Beginning & Intermediate Levels, August 30, 2008

Publications:

Ouray County 2009 Winter Guide (distribution 35,000), Featured Cover Artist

Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities 2010 Calendar, Featured Artist for March

Affiliations:

Signature Member, Pastel Society of Colorado

Board Member, Ouray County Arts Association

Member and former Board Member, Weehawken Creative Arts

Galleries:

Around the Corner Art Gallery, Montrose, CO

Off the Wall 2 Gallery, Grand Junction, CO

Sunrise Southwest Gallery, Ridgway, CO

Weems Fine Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM