Barbara Roux Conservation Artist

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Panels / Talks

  • Collections Conversations, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, February 23, 2021
  • Environmental Impact Roundtable: Art into Action, Hofstra University Museum of Art, November 13, 2019
  • Professional Development Conference, Guest speaker, "There is no eARTh Without Art". Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, June 27, 2017
  • Artist Talk, "Voices and Visions", Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, July 24, 2008
  • Artist panelist, "Art and Sustainability", Sustainability Practice Network, Smith Barney, New York, NY, December 18, 2007
  • Gallery Talk, C.U.N.Y., Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY, November 8, 2007.
  • Photographs contributed to CD and Presentation of Botanist Dr. Andrew Greller of Habitat Flora of Caumsett State Park
  • Artist participant, Green Voices, Symposium, "Artists Talk on Art and the Environment" sponsored by the North Fork Environmental Council, May 6, 2006, Peconic Landing, Greenport, NY
  • Guest, Long Island History program, WHPC-FM Radio, April 22, 2006
  • Guest Speaker, A Dialogue with Nature, sponsored by the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary, Audubon Center and Planting Fields at The Hoffman Center, Muttontown, NY, May 26, 2004
  • Gallery Talk, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, March 26, 2000
  • Speaker, Panel, "A Woman's Place", Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, March 26, 1996
  • Speaker, Panel on Conceptual Art, Silvermine Guild Center, Silvermine, CT, October 16, 1988

Education

  • M.F.A. Combined Media, City University of New York, Hunter College, 1985
  • B.A. Communications and Creative Art, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, 1979

Awards

  • Chosen as one of the artists representing the USA for the International Competition of Environmental Art 2006, sponsored by the Paradise Art Center in Poloor, Iran
  • Chosen for Andy Warhol Preserve Artist's Residency Program by The Nature Conservancy to work at the Andy Warhol Preserve, Montauk, NY with school students on art project as well as own project. Fall 2004 or spring 2005
  • SUNY College at Old Westbury, Alumni Association Honoree, Excellence in Communications and Creative Arts, April 1998
  • Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, "Outdoor Sculpture Now", Honorable Mention, Judge: Jennifer Cross, Director, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, 1989

Publications

  • Wrote Introduction for Leave of Absence: An Illustrated Guide to Common Garden Affection, by Laura Madeline Wiseman and Sally Deskins, published by Red Dashboard, LCC, 2016
  • Happenstance, Barbara Roux, Huntington, NY, 2015
  • Growing Evidence, Barbara Roux, Huntington, NY, 2013
  • Editor/creator of monthly e-mail newsletter A.I.R. MAIL for women artists, 2005-present
  • Provided the essay on Iranian artist Ahmad Nadalian for website on environmental art, 2007
  • Hidden Forest, Barbara Roux, New York, NY, 2004
  • Society of Plants, Barbara Roux, New York, NY, 2001
  • The Opague Glass, with Coco Gordon, Water Mark Press, Huntington, NY 1985

Professional Experience

  • Guest Artist, Draw Out, POETree, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, September 22, 2019.
  • Appointed Member to Lloyd Harbor Village Conservation Board, 2003 - 2013
  • Review Panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend Grants, June 16, 1997
  • Guest Lecturer, Visiting Artist Program, Long Island University, C.W. Post Center, Greenvale, NY, April 18, 1994
  • Teacher, Studio Art, Stony Brook Union Craft Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 1993 to 1998
  • Tutor, Studio Art, State University of New York, Empire State College, Old Westbury, NY, 1985 to 1998
  • Lecturer, Design, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT, 1981
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