Barbara Earl Thomas

Barbara Earl Thomas is an award-winning writer and visual artist with a career that spans more than 30 years. Her far-ranging exhibits include The Savannah Contemporary Art Museum and the Seattle and Tacoma Art Museums with solo exhibits at the Meadows Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the Evansville Museum of Art and Technology in Indiana. Her works, widely collected, are included in the Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma Art Museums and private and corporate collections. In 2013, Thomas...See more

Barbara Earl Thomas is an award-winning writer and visual artist with a career that spans more than 30 years. Her far-ranging exhibits include The Savannah Contemporary Art Museum and the Seattle and Tacoma Art Museums with solo exhibits at the Meadows Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the Evansville Museum of Art and Technology in Indiana. Her works, widely collected, are included in the Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma Art Museums and private and corporate collections. In 2013, Thomas received the Seattle Mayor's Arts Award and in 2016, the Washington State Governor's Arts award, the Artist Trust, the Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award, and the Seattle Stranger Genius Award for excellence in the arts. She was also nationally noted for her exhibition Heaven On Fire , a major career survey with The Bainbridge Island Art Museum. Her work has been widely featured nationally; with the John Braseth Gallery at the Seattle Art Fair (2016) and at EXPO Chicago (2017, 2018) and Pulse Contemporary Art Fair (2018) with Claire Oliver Gallery (New York), and more. She has published essays on travel, nature, and contemporary arts and culture, as well as monographs on artists such as Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Joe Fedderson, Cappy Thompson, Alan Rohan Crite, and Julie Speidel. She lives in Seattle, Washington. See less