Barbara

Barbara Romain is a visual, performing and teaching artist who is legally blind. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Washburn Gallery and Union station in Washington D.C. In 2005 her "visual music" paintings were on display in a solo exhibit, BAD EYE ON THE GOOD FOOT at the ART Around Gallery in Philadelphia, and a 2-person show DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE/WRITING ON THE WALL was exhibited at the Satsuma Gallery in North Hollywood, CA.She is a Teaching Artist Fellow for Very Special Arts, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and a two-year Artist in Residence for the City of Los Angeles Department of cultural Affairs where her project WHAT'S IN A NAME, with collaborator Mira-Lani Bernard was exhibited at The Workmen's Circle in June, 2007. Barbara and Mira-Lani are cofounders/directors of ART OPTIONS, an award-winning and unique interdisciplinary arts education program for inner city students.Barbara currently is a member of the Art & visual Design Faculty at Columbia College Hollywood, a film school in Tarzana, CA, where she has taught for several years. She also studies piano and ceramics at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles.CURRENT & UPCOMING EXIBITS: SHARED VISIONS,Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton, CA. sEPT. 2007 through Aug. 2008 CORE: DEFINING OURSELVES, (Curating) Second City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA Sept-Oct. 2007 INSIGHTS 2007, San Francisco Art Commission gallery at City Hall, October 4--December 7, 2007 NATIONAL ACQUISITIONS EXHIBITION, Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, NY, October--December 2007 NATIONAL EXHIBITS BY BLIND ARTISTS, Wayne Art Center Gallery, Wayne, PA Oct-Dec. 2007 SPEAKING VOLUMES/TRANSFORMING HATE, Holtern Museum, Helena, Montana, January-April 2008.