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E. J. Barnes

Curriculum Vitae

Publication Art/Design Clients Awards Grants and Residencies Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions Juried Art Festivals Curatorial Experience Film Festivals Teaching Experience
Media Coverage Reviews Professional Societies Education

Publication

Art/Design Clients

Awards

Grants and Residencies

29 February — 28 March 2012 Artist's Residency, Culture and Arts Project NOASS, Riga, Latvia
10—23 October 2009 Painting Residency with fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

Solo Exhibitions

April 2010 Out Of The Blue Gallery presents "Laughing To Keep From Crying: The Political Cartoons of E. J. Barnes", Upstairs at The Middle East Restaurant, Cambridge, MA
July 2009 "Around the Neighborhood": 2007—2009 original editorial cartoons published in The Recorder and The Commons, at Green Fields Market, Greenfield, MA
January — March 2007 "Funny Pictures, Serious Business II": 2006—2007 original editorial cartoons for The Recorder, Sunderland Public Library, Sunderland, MA
December 2006 "Odd Ducks: Avian Art for Cartoons, Comic Books, and Animation": watercolor and gouache paintings made for Birds of the Baltic, Leatherwing Bat, and other works, Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, MA
September — October 2006 Untitled solo show of original topical cartoon art, including editorial cartoons that have appeared in The Recorder, at Green Fields Market, Greenfield, MA
May — June 2006 "Funny Pictures, Serious Business": 2005—2006 original editorial cartoons for The Recorder, Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA
November 2004 A Taste of Art presents "Circles of Color": syncretic mandalas painted in gouache, Amherst Crepes, Amherst, MA

Group Exhibitions: Highlights

31 May — 5 July 2012 The Cambridge Art Association 11th National Prize Show, juried group show at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
3—24 February 2012 "Scratching the Surface", juried group show at Cambridge Art Association's Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
10 September—16 October 2011 Comic Art New England, shown in conjunction with Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo (MICE), at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
11 April—22 May 2011 Cambridge Open Studios Preview Exhibition, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
28 January — 4 February 2011 "Good vs. Evil! Superhero vs. Villain Smackdown", juried exhibition at Space 242, Boston, MA
31 October — 30 November 2010 Original Art from Inbound 5: The Food Issue, Atomic Bean Café, Cambridge, MA
2—28 July 2010 Cambridge Art Association 2010 New Members Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
30 April — 21 May 2010 "Get Your Freak On! Celebrating Circus Folk, Carnies & Sideshow Freaks", juried exhibition at Space 242, Boston, MA
6—28 March 2010 "Art of the Boston Comics Roundtable" at Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA
29 January — 13 March 2010 "I...You...We...ROBOT: A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek!", juried exhibition at Space 242, Boston, MA
12 November 2007 — 3 January 2008 "A Hundred Under A Hundred", Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA
September — November 2006 7th Annual Great River Exhibition: "Homage to the Seasons", benefit for Pioneer Valley Institute, at Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA
30 September — 1 October 2006
29—30 September 2007
27—28 September 2008		 "Critical Views" II, III, and IV annual juried show of political art, Red Sun Press, Jamaica Plain, MA, held in conjunction with Jamaica Plain Open Studios
September — October 2006
7—28 June 2008		 "Artists for Animals", benefit for Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society, the Barnes Gallery, Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett, MA

Juried Art Festivals

Curatorial Experience

23 February — 22 April 2012 "Comics and Society: Observations of Boston Comic and Cartoon Artists", featuring art of the Boston Comics Roundtable, at Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, MA
29 June — 31 July 2009 "Five Valley Cartoonists", at Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, MA
1 April — 29 May 2008 "Accounts of Events: Narrative Works by Connecticut Valley Artits", at Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA

Film Festivals

Teaching Experience

Summer 2010 — Present Introduction to Cartooning, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
Summer 2008 Basic Cartooning, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Continuing and Professional Education Program, Amherst, MA
Spring 2008 Editorial Cartooning, Greenfield Community College, Community Education Program (teen to adult), Greenfield, MA
Summer 2007 Editorial Cartooning, Sunderland Public Library, Sunderland, MA
Spring 2007 — Spring 2008 Basic Cartooning, Greenfield Community College, Community Education Program (teen to adult), Greenfield, MA
Winter 2007 Cartooning, A.C.E. of Clubs (After Class Experience), Mohawk Trail Regional High and Middle Schools, Buckland, MA

Media Coverage

28 October 2011 Cambridge Chronicle: "Cambridge artists are 'Hellbound'".
1 May 2011 Cambridge Community Television: Interview for Cambridge Open Studios.
3 December 2010 Indie Spinner Rack: Interview with Boston Comics Roundtable.
24 June 2007 Fanboy blog: Coverage of Confessions of an American Ling Master, with photo.
July 2006 Zebra Magazine: recommendations included a plug for the Ling Master and an interview with E. J. Barnes.
25 May 2006 The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, Arts & Entertainment section, "Art Scene": column by Cheryl Rezendes Rulewich, "Funny Pictures, Serious Business," (not available online)
22 April 2006 Amerikos Lietuvis, The Lithuanian-American Weekly (Rytų Pakrantė [Eastern Edition]): Interview by Laurynas Misevičius, translated and edited by Eugenija Misevičius, "Rumunų kilmės karikatūristė susidomėjo Baltijos šalimis ir jų... paukščiais," (in Lithuanian; no longer available on the Amerikos Lietuvis site, but can be read here).
24 June 2004 The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, Diversions: The Arts & Entertainment Section: Interview by George W. Claxton, "Artistic Expression in Many Mediums," (not available online)

Reviews

Professional Societies

Education

1992—2009 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Certificate in Illustration received December 2009.
March 2000 Seminar with Edward R. Tufte: Presenting Data and Information. Visual design for information display and communication.
1982 California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), Oakland, CA.
1976—1980 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Concentration: Chemistry. Assistant in laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach. A.B. in June 1980.

References and further information available upon request

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