Join us for an artist talk with Barbara Sternberger as she discusses her current exhibition, Emanating, on view through July 9, 2022.

Barbara Sternberger received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine. She lives in Bellingham, Washington and is a part-time lecturer and painting instructor at Western Washington University.

She has exhibited both regionally and nationally, and her paintings are included in numerous private and public collections. Sternberger has presented nine solo exhibitions to date with Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR. Her paintings have been the subject of two solo museum exhibitions: at the Museum of Northwest Art, and at the Whatcom Museum.  Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including Curator's Perspective (Whatcom Museum of Art, 2015); Elles (Seattle Art Museum Gallery, 2012); Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880 - 2010 (Whatcom Museum of Art, 2010); and the U.S. Art in Embassies Program (US State Department). In 2010 she was the  Betty Bowen Awards, Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award Winner.