Beginning the Fall 2024 Fine Arts Lecture Series, the MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D Fine Arts departments are pleased to welcome Barbara Sullivan. Please join us in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 23. 

Barbara Sullivan is a painter and installation artist living in Maine. She works in the age–old medium of fresco, which she learned when she was the head cook at The Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. Her relationship to the Maine art community is long and involved.

Sullivan holds a B.A. in Art and Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington and an M.F.A. from Vermont College in Montpelier, VT. She is recently retired from teaching drawing and painting foundations and sculpture at The University of Maine at Farmington, where she taught for 22 years. She also teaches fresco workshops including; The Aspen Institute, The Farnsworth Museum, Haystack Mountain School, Pratt Institute, Bowdoin and Colby Colleges, The University of Maine, Boston University, Waterfall Arts and Monson Arts. 

In 2007, Sullivan had her first solo Museum Exhibition, at The Zillman Museum, Bangor, ME.  She has shown widely in Maine including three Portland Museum of Art Biennials and in New York, “Fresh fresco”, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, “Fresco, Off The Wall” at The Hudson Guild Gallery, Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Bravin Lee Gallery in New York. Recently, a two person show with Breehan James that began at The Alice Wild Gallery in Milwaukee, WI, Buoy Gallery in Kittery,ME and was also featured at Spring Break in Los Angeles, CA. Sullivan has received both The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant and The Pollock/Krasner Grant. Barbara is represented by Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME (1996-present)

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Barbara Sullivan, The Workshop, shaped fresco installation, 96 x 140 ft., 2007