Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Barbara Bernstein

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Amherst, VA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
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Barbara Bernstein is an American painter, writer, and visual artist. She has been awarded residencies in this country and overseas including The American Academy in Rome, Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg,) and MacDowell. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Pennsylvania Arts Council, The Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, and the HK Mellon/Pittsburgh Foundation among others. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad and was selected for special exhibitions at the UN Conference for Women in Beijing, the Knesset in Jerusalem, and Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Bernstein was awarded a commission by the Virginia Transit System for design enhancements of seven stations in the Crystal City/Potomac Yard areas; her project for the Lynchburg Neighborhood Development Foundation was featured in the Public Art Dialogue Journal, an international review published by Routledge. Bernstein and her husband, David Garratt, have been the Resident Artists at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts since 2007.

Studios

Heinz

Barbara Bernstein worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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