Discipline: Visual Art

Craig Barber

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Tulalip, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990
More: www.craigbarber.com/about
Craig Barber is American photographer whose work centers around cultural landscapes. Barber has traveled to a variety of locations, such as Vietnam, Havana, and the Catskills in New York. Barber’s work has been exhibited throughout the Americas and Europe in numerous collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Brooklyn Art Museum in New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. Barber has received commissions from the Seattle Arts Commission, the Polaroid Corporation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Additionally, Barber published Ghosts in Landscape: Vietnam Revisited in 2006 with Umbrage Editions, and has taught and lectured throughout the Americas and Europe for 25 years.

Studios

Putnam

Craig Barber worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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