![]() ![]() In June 2016, I transitioned from Living Art to pursue making art full-time. I am grateful to collaborate with the biodiversity of our world. My camera became another way to capture what was compelling to me in natural forms. In 2009, I started to amass a collection of fallen bark and began experimenting using natural and man-made materials in my mask work.Īround 2010, the design elements that excited me in bark shaped how I saw things. I was a member of the Montana Arts Council from 2005-2015. In 1993 I co-founded the non-profit organization Living Art of Montana and for twenty-three years I served Living Art’s mission to use the arts and nature to support healing through many different roles. My art explorations over the last forty years have included teaching, performing, directing, sculpture, writing and photography. I have BFA in Acting and Directing and a MA in Psychology and Drama Therapy, MA. I feel a sense of being home when I am with water and trees. My father was a forest ranger and growing up I lived in National Forests, the Tongass in Alaska and the Kootenai in Montana. She wrote and directed the play “Garden of Pleasure,” which was performed at UCLA, and wrote “What is More Real Than a Dream? Memoir of Chateau Montelena Winery” about the winery in Calistoga, California she and her husband helped found whose 1973 Chardonnay won the landmark Paris tasting of 1976. Barrett exhibited and supported many Montana contemporary artists.īorn in Froid, Montana, and raised on a wheat farm, Barrett left at the age of sixteen to attend the University of Montana, where she studied writing, language, and education, and later art at the University of Hawaii and the University of California, L.A. Barrett, who opened Bridge Street Gallery and Wine Café and Restaurant, Collage Gallery in Bigfork, Montana, Ambos Galeria de Arte y Artefactos in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. All the while, she was quietly making her own work including prints, collages, and paintings. She ran three galleries during her career, two in Bigfork, and was an ardent supporter of women artists in particular. Laura Grace Barrett (1930–2017), was a champion for art her entire life. Her botanical paintings have been exhibited at the Mobile Arts Council and the Ashland Gallery. ![]() Her fiber pieces have been exhibited regionally in group exhibitions in Auburn, Callaway Gardens, and the Mobile Museum of Art. She is a member of two fiber art groups in Alabama and is a Board Member of the American Society of Botanical Artists. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, she retired from a successful career in governmental accounting. They enjoy travelling, especially to Montana, and are active volunteers in their community. Recent botanical art studies have honed her art skills in fiber and colored pencil, while selection as an Artist-in-Residence at Old Faithful in 20 narrowed her focus to flora and landscapes.Ī native of Montgomery, Alabama, she and her husband reside along the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. Inspired by the quilters of her family and the Impressionist Art Movement, Carolyn Courson’s fiber art quilts emphasize the beauty of Nature, featuring traditional and contemporary quilting techniques.
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