Barb Baur
Barb Baur is an artist, jeweler and educator with occasional adventures into belly dancing, musical instrument repair, pressure cooking, caregiving and homeschooling. Her art is made using traditional jewelry processes and computer aided design (CAD). Having spent twelve years living on a sailboat and traveling along the East coast of the US, Barb creates wearable art based on the forms of sailing vessels as well as more traditional jewelry. As an educator, she is passionate about inspiring creativity along with imparting knowledge. Barb lives and works in Northeast Philadelphia, not far from where she grew up. She received her MFA in 2017 in Metals/Jewelry/ CAD-CAM from Tyler School of Art.
Awarded Grants
2017
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Barb will start a program that teaches 3D technology software to female and transgender teens and young adults at the Tacony LAB. Barb hopes to create accessibility to vital job skills that are not easily available to this demographic, build self-confidence, and facilitate the growth of a local maker community starting with the program participants. An additional goal would be to nurture enough community engagement to eventually support an art/maker space.
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