{"id":13849,"date":"2026-08-05T11:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=13849"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:26:54","slug":"artist-talk-julia-whitney-barnes","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/event\/artist-talk-julia-whitney-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk: Julia Whitney Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poughkeepsie-based artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliawhitneybarnes.com\/\">Julia Whitney Barnes<\/a>\u00a0joins us to share insights into her wide-ranging artistic practice, which is based in reverent observation of the natural world. Whitney Barnes\u2019s work is a highlight of the Loeb\u2019s exhibition\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/theloeb\/exhibitions\/botanist-vassar\">The Botanist at Vassar<\/a>, on view through October 4. She is also the creator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliawhitneybarnes.com\/public-art\"><em>The Botanist\u2019s Mural<\/em><\/a>, a mural commissioned for Vassar\u2019s Heartwood\/Institute of the Liberal Arts.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about Julia Whitney Barnes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in Newbury, VT, Julia Whitney Barnes spent two decades in Brooklyn\/NYC before moving to the Hudson Valley in 2015. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and MFA from Hunter College. Whitney Barnes works in a variety of media from cyanotypes, watercolor, combined media works on paper, oil paintings, glass, ceramic sculptures, murals, site-specific installations, and limited-edition prints. She has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally including the Albany International Airport; Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, New York; Dorksy Museum, New Paltz, NY; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY; Hancock Shaker Museum, Berkshires, MA; Woodstock Artists Association &amp; Museum (WAAM), Woodstock, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT; Garvey|Simon NY, New York, NY and Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne, Germany. Her work is in numerous private and public collections.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney Barnes is the recipient of fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, Winterthur Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Arts Mid-Hudson, Abbey Memorial Fund for Mural Painting\/National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Gowanus Public Art Initiative, among others. She completed two significant commissions in 2024 including an immersive double-sided glass artwork for Public Art for Public Schools\/NYC Percent for Art in Brooklyn, NY and a room-wide mural for the new Vassar College Institute in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2024. In 2025 she created a wraparound exterior mural in Cambridge, MA based on local flora and inspired by the famous 19th century glass flowers in the collection of the Harvard Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poughkeepsie-based artist\u00a0Julia Whitney Barnes\u00a0joins us to share insights into her wide-ranging artistic practice, which is based in reverent observation of the natural world. Whitney Barnes\u2019s work is a highlight of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/event\/artist-talk-julia-whitney-barnes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Artist Talk: Julia Whitney Barnes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9436,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-13849","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13850,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13849\/revisions\/13850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13849"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=13849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}