Photo credit: Jovelle Tamayo

Ep.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 through papercuts and prints, placing silhouetted figures in social and political landscapes. Thomas is known for her large-scale installations that use light as the animating force and invite her viewers to step inside her illuminated scenographies. Barbara’s works are included in the collections of the Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland Art Museums, Chrysler Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington State and Seattle City public collections. She has art projects for Seattle’s Sound Transit stations and Yale University. She received her BA and MFA from the University of Washington School of Art. She currently has two major exhibits on view; Geography of Innocence at the Seattle Art Museum, and a collaborative exhibit with New York-based artist, Derrick Adams, Packaged Black at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington.

Artist https://barbaraearlthomas.com/

Seattle Art Museum https://thomas.site.seattleartmuseum.org/

Seattle Met https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2021/03/barbara-earl-thomas-jacob-lawrence-sam-seattle-art-museum-shows-2021-american-struggle-geography-of-innocence

Claire Oliver Gallery https://www.claireoliver.com/artists/barbara-earl-thomas/

Bomb Magazine  https://bombmagazine.org/articles/between-fragility-and-strength-barbara-earl-thomas-interviewed/

Henry Art  https://henryart.org/exhibitions/packaged-black

University of Washington https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2022-02/poetics-barbara-earl-thomas

Seattle Times  https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/barbara-earl-thomas-the-geography-of-innocence-exhibit-at-sam-invites-transformation/

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Earl_Thomas

Delicious, 2021
Paper cut with hand printed color
60 x 45 in. (152.4 x 114.3 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery, New York

Cinderella Redressed (3D), 2021
Hand cut Tyvek, hand printed color and Voile
Approx. 108 in. (365.8cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery, New York

Beauty in the Vines, 2021
Paper cut with hand printed color
Approx. 50 x 26 in. (127 x 66 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery, New York

Divine, 2021
Paper cut with hand printed color
40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66 cm) image size; 48 ¾ x 34 ¾ x 1 ⅜ in. (123.825 x 88.265 x 3.49 cm) frame size
Courtesy of the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery, New York