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Show Artist in Residence at KAC After widely publicizing a newly new-ly funded Kimball Art Center Artist-in-Residence position, a jury committee reviewed the many portfolios and selected artist ar-tist Robert Barrett for the slot. Barrett recently returned from Europe where he studied painting as a recipient of a German Academic Aca-demic Exchange Grant. The majority ma-jority of his time there was spent in Berlin at the Hochschule der Kunste (Academy of Arts). While in Europe, he traveled extensively extensive-ly to major European art museums. mu-seums. His work in Europe Culminated Cul-minated with a one-man show at the Busam Gallerie in Berlin. Currently a Salt Lake City resident, Barrett serves as Director Direc-tor of Illustration at Exhibigraph-ics Exhibigraph-ics (formerly Media Mill) and is on the faculty of the Salt Lake Art Center. His recent free-lance commissions include six paintings for the LDS Church Visitors Center Cen-ter at the London Temple in England and cover and chapter illustrations for an upcoming novel to be published by Maurice Warshaw. A graduate of the University of Utah, Barrett received his MFA from the University of Iowa and later served as teaching assistant there and as instructor at the City Colleges of Chicago. This pilot Artist-in-Residence project is jointly sponsored by the Utah Arts Council and the Kimball Kim-ball Art Center. As an Artist-in-Residence, Barrett receives studio stu-dio space in the Center and over the next few months will teach classes here, -.and t will . conduct . -various community-oriented projects. |