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Illuminating Creativity: Barbara Earl Thomas’s Radiant World
Luiza Louback for 34th Street September 11, 2024Exploring Light, Life, and Legacy at Arthur Ross Gallery What makes an exhibition so immersive that it seamlessly draws viewers into both its external world...Read more -
Claire Oliver Gallery: A Brief History of the Future
SURFACE May 31, 2024A group show featuring BK Adams, Barbara Earl Thomas, Stan Squirewell, LaNia Roberts, and Carolyn Mazloomi examines how each artist grapples with temporality in their...Read more -
Artist Barbara Earl Thomas On Creation, Contemplation and Bringing People Together
Jahunyia Healis for OBSERVER March 5, 2024Born in Seattle, artist Barbara Earl Thomas represents the first generation of her family to be born outside of the South—a relocation primarily influenced by...Read more -
Barbara Earl Thomas's 'The Illuminated Body' Shines in Philadelphia, Merging Art with Community
Justice Nwafor for BNN March 5, 2024Artist Barbara Earl Thomas presents 'The Illuminated Body,' a journey of art and community through cut-paper portraits at UPenn's Arthur Ross Gallery. Born in Seattle,...Read more -
Barbara Earl Thomas Cultivates Divine Mystery
Jenna Adrian-Diaz for SURFACE February 27, 2024Some might see the Venetian Gothic architecture of the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery as imposing or overwhelming, yet paper artist and printmaker Barbara...Read more -
Arthur Ross Gallery opens "The Illuminated Body" exhibition featuring portraits, light installation
Luiza Louback for The Daily Pennsylvanian February 19, 2024'Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body' showcases large-scale portraits crafted from hand-cut paper. The exhibition, which marks Thomas' debut in Philadelphia, will be on view...Read more -
In Magical Cut Paper Works, Barbara Earl Thomas Alchemizes Light and Shadow
Grace Ebert for COLOSSAL February 15, 2024Barbara Earl Thomas reminds us that darkness—and the absences and omissions it conceals—are part of the stories we’ve adopted as truth. Her pieces gravitate toward...Read more -
Celebrating Diversity at SEA with Two Local Heroes
Port of Seattle February 8, 2024As Black History Month unfolds, the Port of Seattle proudly embraces the occasion by expanding its public art collection. In a momentous stride, Seattle-Tacoma International...Read more -
Illuminating the World Through a Million Cuts
The Daily Heller: PRINT February 6, 2024It is always a gift to be introduced to an artist whose work inspires the soul and uplifts the spirit. I’ve never met in person...Read more -
100 Years of Junior League of Seattle: Explore the Northwest Art Project
Museum of History and Industruy February 3, 2024100 Years of Junior League of Seattle: Explore the Northwest Art Project: Learn more about the Junior League of Seattle and its 100-year history of...Read more -
Barbara Earl Thomas Exhibition The Illuminated Body to Open at Arthur Ross Gallery in February 2024
Almanac: Volume 70 Issue 20 January 23, 2024The Arthur Ross Gallery presents The Illuminated Body, an exhibition of works by artist Barbara Earl Thomas, which will be on view from February 17-May...Read more -
Wichita North High School Art Students to Collaborate with Renowned Artist Barbara Earl Thomas at the Wichita Art Museum
Eddy for Wichita By EB October 5, 2023Get ready to be wowed as the creative minds of Wichita’s North High School art students come together in a groundbreaking collaboration with acclaimed artist...Read more -
The Arthur Ross Gallery and Penn Live Arts awarded The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants
Amanda Mott for Penn Today September 14, 2023The Arthur Ross Gallery was awarded a grant of $240,500 to support the exhibition “Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body” and a series of major...Read more -
These Artists Are Redefining the American West
Angelica Aboulhosn for Smithsonian Magazine August 19, 2023That vulnerability runs through Barbara Earl Thomas’ Night Crawlers and Earth Worms. In the small linocut, three fishermen are poised before a rushing stream, set...Read more -
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Apollo Magazine July 21, 2023Ideas about the American West have long featured historical falsehoods and racist clichés. This exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (28...Read more -
Giving Voice to Women and BIPOC Artists - In Conversation with Claire Oliver of Claire Oliver Gallery
Kame Hame for Widewalls May 17, 2023For over thirty years, Claire Oliver Gallery has remained true to its original policy to champion underrepresented artists. Thanks to their initiative, the works of...Read more -
Barbara Earl Thomas contextualizes Grace Hopper’s new windows in talk on campus
Yale Daily News November 13, 2022Renowned visual artist, writer and arts administrator Barbara Earl Thomas will engage in a conversation with Christopher Paul Jordan ART ’23 to discuss the commission...Read more -
Yale Replaces Racist Stained-Glass Window, Smashed by University Worker in 2016, With New Commissions by Faith Ringgold and Barbara Earl Thomas
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Faith Ringgold and Barbara Earl Thomas created stained-glass windows at Yale addressing the university’s ties to racist practices
The Art Newspaper October 28, 2022For 84 years, one of Yale University’s residential colleges was named for former US vice-president John C. Calhoun, a Yale graduate who was an ardent...Read more -
New Hopper College windows acknowledge past, celebrate present
YaleNews August 25, 2022Twelve new decorative windows installed today in Grace Hopper College, the Yale residential college previously known as Calhoun College, celebrate the richness of the college’s...Read more -
New Hopper College dining hall windows to confront past, celebrate change
Yale News July 28, 2022Artist Barbara Earl Thomas has accepted a commission to design a new set of windows for the dining hall of Yale’s Grace Hopper College that...Read more -
Inside the artists’ studios: 5 Seattle-area creators give us a peek
Seattle Times July 26, 2022During Barbara Earl Thomas’ storied career , she’s seen many studio configurations: At one point, working out of a large building and squeezing in late-night...Read more -
Black Arts Legacies: Barbara Earl Thomas
Crosscut. June 1, 2022With meticulous skill and a communal approach, the longtime Seattle artist has cut her own path.Read more -
A Conversation With Barbara Earl Thomas
Cerebral Woman Art Talks Podcast March 20, 2022Ep.96 features Barbara Earl Thomas. She is a visual artist with numerous national exhibits to her credit. She is a maker who builds tension-filled narratives...Read more -
The Poetics of Barbara Earl Thomas
University of Washington February 9, 2022This story is the first in a series on Black artists and scholars.Read more -
Barbara Earl Thomas’ ‘The Geography of Innocence’ exhibit at SAM invites transformation
The Seattle Times March 27, 2021One word — “grace” — inspired the first cut-paper portrait Seattle artist Barbara Earl Thomas created in the series that appears in “The Geography of...Read more -
The Illuminating Work Of Barbara Earl Thomas Is Finally In Display At The Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Medium February 26, 2021Seattle has always produced hidden gems and Barbara Earl Thomas is one of them. A native of Seattle, Thomas is an artist extraordinaire. Now that...Read more -
Barbara Earl Thomas Exhibition Opens at Seattle Art Museum
INTERIOR DESIGN February 15, 2021The Seattle Art Museum is giving its first solo exhibition of hometown artist Barbara Earl Thomas , who is also a former director of the...Read more -
From 2 Artists, 2 Ways to Tell Stories of Black America
The New York Times October 21, 2020Works by Bisa Butler and Barbara Earl Thomas are featured in major museum shows in Chicago and Seattle. It’s a star turn that many feel...Read more -
The Story House
Barbara Earl Thomas October 28, 2009The Story House is a roofless structure with open walls where the business of life extends and our stories become part of the world. In...Read more
