Carmen Barros Howell

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CARMEN BARROS HOWELL
37803 Allder School Rd.
Purcellville, Va.22032
(540) 338-6412
(540) 338-1414 Fax
email carmenbarros42@hotmail.com

Born in Santiago, Chile
Education :
Fine Arts, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1960-1966
  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. M., Welding class, 1966
  Loudoun County Adult Education, Welding
   
Teaching : 1970-1980 Teacher, Loudoun Valley Community Center
  1980 Virginia Endowment for the Arts for Teaching
  1980 Started Art Program, Emerick Elementary School
  1980-1985 Art classes for children at home studio
  1985-1986 Art classes, Loudoun Country Day School
  1994 Natural Light School for the Arts
  Loudoun Academy of the Arts
   
Shows : 2006 Rose Gallery, Hudson NY 12534
  2006 Showing at Hickok Cole WPA and Corcoran Art Shows
  2006 Washington Museum, Hagerstown, Md Group Show
  2005 El Valle de Los Artistas member of the community and represented in the Sculpture Park
  2004 Solo Show Gallery 222
  2002-03 Arts Feminae, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC
  2002 Arslatino, Embassy of Chile, Washington DC
  2002 Gallery 222," Bodies, Mind and Spirit" Solo Show
  2001 "Sculpture Now"
  2002 Washington DC, Pittsburgh, at Washington Square, Washington DC, Group Show, Juror Andrea Pollan
  2001 Gallery 222, Group Shows
  2000 "Chilean Artists at the Threshold of the Millennium"
The Artists Museum, Washington, DC
Rose Gallery, Group Shows
Northern Virginia Community College Art Festival
  1999 Washington Sculptors "Sculpture NOW 99" Juried by Willem de Looper
  1999 Rose Gallery, Leesburg, Va (Solo Show)
  1997-98 Susan Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, Va.
  1997-98 Harrison Norris Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  1997 Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
  1997 Arts Club of Washington, Washington D.C.
  1996 Designers House Show, Design Center, Washington, D.C. drawings and sculptures selected by "Mill Company"
  1995-96 Misia Broadhead Gallery member, work on display year round 1995-96 Moscoso Gallery, member, work available
  1994 Art Museum of the Americas, "Across Borders/Sin Fronteras"
  1994 Artempo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  1994 Limelight "Final Acts," Leesburg, Va.
  1993 Congresswoman Eleonor Holmes Norton "Volume, Lines, Color"
  1993 The Greater Washington Collection Of Fine Arts "8 Sculptors From The 2 Virginias "
  1993 Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Art Gallery, "Dialogues"
  1993 International Monetary Fund Art Society Gallery "Building Bridges"
  1992 The District of Columbia Public Library "Journeys," juried by Luciano Penay and Lee Mills
  1992 Loudoun Arts Council "Body Electric" juried by Jo Anne Lewis . Critic for Arts News
  1992 Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton "New Ways"
  1992 The FNMA Art Exhibition "Encounters"
  1992 The Greater Washington Collection of Fine Arts
  1991 Member, Greater Washington Collection of Fine Arts, shows at The Gallery, Leesburg, VA, in September
  1991 The Gallery, Sculpture Exhibition, November.
  1990 Museum of Modern Art of Latin America Organization of American States, "Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties," June 7 - September 8.
  1990 Greater Reston Arts Center, "Past as Prologue," Juried by Willem de Looper
  1990 Martin Luther King Memorial Library "An Exhibition by International Artists"
  1990 National Council of La Raza, "Latin Roots"
  1990 Baltimore National Symphony Fundraising Show
  1988-1989 City Gallery, Washington D.C., participant in monthly group shows
  1989 Martin Luther King Memorial Library
  1989 City Gallery, Washington D.C., "Three Latin American Artists"
  1989 Arlington Art Center, show juried by Franz Bader
  1989 Washington Museum, juried annual show
  1989 Studio Tour, Loudoun Council of the Arts
  1987-1991 Artspring Festival of the Arts, Lucketts, VA.
  1986 Washington Museum Group Show, Hagerstown, MD.
  1986 Loudoun County Administration Building Gallery Group Show, September.
  1986 Loudoun Museum Juried Show, May, juried by Andrew Hudson
  1985 Grace Gallery, Reston, VA, April show juried by Willem de Looper
  1985 Arlington Art Center, March show juried by Barbara Price
  1984 Loudoun County Administrative Building Gallery, One-person Show, December
  1984-1986 Alexandria Art League, member Participant in monthly juried shows; juror for September 1984 show was David Tannous
  1984 Washington Museum Group Show, Hagerstown, MD.
  1984 Arlington Art Center, member since September, 1984
  1982 Washington Museum Group Show, Hagerstown, MD.
  1980 Guest sculptor, Loudoun County Sketch Club participant in club shows since 1980; shows juried by David Tannous, Jack Boul and others
  1980-1990 Waterford group art show, 2nd prizes in sculpture, 1980, 1982, 1988
  1968 Group show in Salisbury, MD.Works owned by several private collectors Commissions, Private collectors