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Garden, and I offer independent workshops and artist retreats. Recent <br />teaching projects may be found on my website at <br />https://www.barbaratyroler.com/workshops1 <br />As a photographer/artist/educator, I work most deeply when I’m engaged <br />with a community project. A friend once told me a long time ago when I first <br />began doing commercial work for clients that receiving grant-funded <br />projects enables the freedom and opportunity to pursue creative passions. <br />In the later years of my career, I have found myself in totally agreement. <br />Project-funded work enables one to be less concerned about the <br />commercial value of the art and more able to concentrate on the <br />experimental and humanitarian aspects. <br />I have written numerous community and state level grant-funded projects <br />over the many decades of my professional career. Below are some <br />examples of the most recent: <br />Seeing Trees, my 2021-22 exhibition of semi-abstracted tree imagery and <br />35 distanced portraits of people and the trees they cherish, photographed <br />during the Covid years when inside visitation was prohibited. The project <br />included socially distanced workshops, multi-media virtual presentation with <br />interpretive video and original music, collaborative events with 2 <br />woodcrafters, a ceramicist, a graphite artist, and a gum bichromate artist. <br />Exhibitions and community forums were held at Frank Gallery and NC <br />Botanical Garden. <br />Rockin’ the Spectrum and Autism Awareness, Diverse Abilities, is a <br />permanent installation of portraits of children in an adapted aquatics swim <br />class at the Homestead Aquatic Center. These projects included <br />exhibitions, educational seminars, discussion groups for parents, special <br />education teachers, artists, and arts administrators, and additional <br />programs showcasing art from adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The <br />project received support from Chapel Hill Public and Cultural Arts <br />Commission Into the Streets in 2014 and won the NC Arts and Humanities <br />Project Award, 2015. https://www.barbaratyroler.com/projects <br />Visitations, Gifts for Imani was an exhibition of impressionistic art <br />composites of historical photographs from NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton <br />Green’s family archives. W e organized a family reunion to honor the life <br />and death of Jaki’s daughter with responsive music by MahaloArts. It was <br />juried into the CLICK! Photo Festival Fence award, 2018 <br />https://www.barbaratyroler.com/visitations <br />The W riter’s Life, was a series of portraits of writers in response to the <br />publication Mothers and Strangers edited by Lee Smith. The exhibition of <br />the portraits was juried into the Block Gallery where the writers participated <br />in reading their passages from the book. <br />https://www.barbaratyroler.com/writers <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 9D0CBC51-F977-46D5-B473-F2756F22CBC8