Barbara F. Yontz, Professor Visual Art
Barbara Yontz is a Professor Visual Art of Visual Art at St. Thomas Aquinas College, New York. With an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College, teaching primarily painting, drawing and photography. Additional Master's degrees in Art History from Vanderbilt University and Art Education from the University of South Florida expand interests and teaching to those disciplines as well. Splitting time between Manhattan and Nashville, her interest in the intersections of Art and Social Justice led to a project with a group of men living on Death Row at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville, TN. The project has yielded a number of exhibitions including the most recent, Unit 2 Voices: Artwork from Death Row, at St. Thomas Aquinas College in September of 2015. Her individual work includes a group of drawings, The Love Letter Series, conceived as individual letters to each of these 11 men of Unit 2.
Previous exhibitions include: Vanderbilt University and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville; the Phoenix Gallery, New York; the Jose Marti National Library, Havana; the Boston Museum School; and the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, NJ.
Previous exhibitions include: Vanderbilt University and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville; the Phoenix Gallery, New York; the Jose Marti National Library, Havana; the Boston Museum School; and the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, NJ.
personal website: www.barbarayontz.net
class website: www.barbarayontzatstac.com
email: [email protected]
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