Barbara Westermann

Barbara Westermann (born Swiezinski, in Werdohl, Germany in 1958) is a conceptual and site-specific sculptor, artist and teacher living in Red Hook, New York. She has lived and worked in New York City for many years and continues to work on projects in the city.
==Recent projects==
Recent projects include a Women's Studio Workshop fellowship and work with seniors at Su Casa in Queens, New York,https://www.queenscouncilarts.org/sucasa and at the Hessel Museum of Art as well as artwork in Art for the Future at Tufts University and super dakota gallery in Brussels. She has shown her work with Clay Street Press Gallery.
==Education==
She received her B.A. in Architecture & Urban Planning from the University of Kassel, Germany, 1982–77 and her MFA in Sculpture from Cologne University of Applied Sciences Fachhochschule Koln, Germany, 1985–82. She studied with Daniel Spoerri, Eduardo Paolozzi and Stefan Wewerka.
She also met her husband and artistic collaborator William Allen planting trees as part of Beuys' 7000 Eichen project at the documenta 7 project in Kassel, Germany.
After moving to New York, she studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and completed the education certificate at the School of Visual Arts.
==Awards==
* Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, 1999
* Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1988
* Art Matters Foundation Grant, 1988
==Teaching==
* Hessel Museum-Bard College Lifetime Learning
* Su Casa Senior Art Classes, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
* Individual Instruction, Studio Practice, Medallion Studios, Queens, NY
* Seminar Leader and Community Workshops, Women's Studio Workshop
* Seminar Leader, Brown University, Providence, RI
* Beuys Symposium, Brown University and Providence College
* Sculpture Instructor, Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, RI, 2002–1999
* Program Instructor, Roger Williams University, School of Architecture School, Bristol, RI
* Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
* Art Teacher, Providence College, Providence, RI
* Art Teacher, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
* Seminar Leader, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1996
* Art Teacher, New York University, Winter 1997. Seminar on Morality & Materials
==Art in publications==
* Art Demonstration, Group Material, MIT Press, 2022
* 100 degrees West - 80 degrees East Meridian, Clay Street Press, 2020
* "Sculpture and Data: History, Function, Invisibility in Architecture" by Alexandra Keiser, 2019
* Geographies, Clay Street Press Gallery, 2013
* Providence Art Club, Providence, RI 2005
* Exhibition review, Clay Street Press Gallery, Sara Eisen, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 2004
* WindSeaSky catalog, Newport, RI, 2004
* Essay by Vesela Sretenovic, "Observatory", 2004
* Exhibition review, A.R.T. Gallery, by Ken Johnson, New York Times, 2000
* Immobile Spaces, Bell Gallery exhibition, Vesela Sretenovic, Brown University, 1999
* Artist's work, with Group Material at P.S. 1, New York, 1999
* Art of the Millennium, by Burkhardt Riemschneider, Taschen , 1999
* Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, essays by Hugh Davies and Ron Onorato, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1997
* Artist's work included in Timeline, Robin Kahn, Creative Time, 1995
* Artist's Portfolio, Chelsea magazine, 1994
* Barbara Westermann, monograph, Freiburg Museum, 1988
* LivingRoom magazine, Amsterdam, 1985
* Editor, Kunstforum International, Nr. 51, Kassel, 1980
Category:1958 births
Category:German people
Category:University of Kassel alumni
Category:Sculptures
Category:Conceptual art
Category:Artists
Category:Teachers