About the Artist

b.  Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

 

RESIDES:  Billings, Montana

 

EDUCATION:  Montana State University, B.S. Secondary Education, M.S. Earth Science

 

EXHIBITIONS:

 

Pastel Society of America Wildlife/Creature Showcase, 2024

43rd Open Division - the 2023 IAPS Fall Juried Exhibition

Pastel Chicago, 2023, Ninth Biennial National Open Juried Exhibition

Northwest Pastel Society 37th International Exhibition, 2023

Enchanted Colors, 2023, Pastel Society of New Mexico

Billings Logan International Airport Exhibit, 2023, Billings, MT

O Beautiful Billings, 2020, one-woman show, Ryniker-Morrison Gallery, Rocky Mountain College, Billings

Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Museum, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Billings, MT

Storied Landscapes, 2018, Western Heritage Center, Billings, MT

Brinton 101, 2017, 2018, 2019 Brinton Museum, Big Horn, WY

Western Spirit Art Show and Sale, 2017, Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West  Museum, Cheyenne, WY

Arte de Avian, 2015, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ

Cheyenne Depot Museum Rail Art Show and Sale, 2015, Cheyenne, WY

Icons of the West, 2015, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT

Rawhide and Spurs, 2015, Mountain Trails Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

24th Annual National Pastel Painting Exhibition, 2015, Pastel Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

AWARDS, COLLECTIONS, AND MEMBERSHIPS:

 

Award of Merit, 43rd Open Division - the 2023 IAPS Fall Juried Exhibition

Pastel Society of New Mexico, Member

Portrait Society of America, Member

Yellowstone Valley Woman Magazine, July/August 2019

UArt Award, Small Works Juried Art Show, 2018, Sage Community Art, Sheridan, WY

Diane Townsend Award, Confluence, 2017, WaterWorks Art Museum, Miles City, MT

Presbyterian Hospital Collection, Albuquerque, NM

 

NARRATIVE:

 

Barbara Huffcutt Garrett was born in northern Wisconsin and attended a one-room country school through the seventh grade.  The family of five children grew up surrounded by a rural life in an unplugged age.  She graduated with bachelors and masters degrees from Montana State University-Bozeman and lived and worked in Montana for 25 years.  While in Montana she met and married Thomas M. Posey, a former executive director of the Western Heritage Center in Billings.  He cultivated her art skills and mentored her as she explored mediums and subject matter.  Following her husband she moved to New Mexico in 1992.  New Mexico proved to be an epicenter of top pastel artists.  They offered invaluable inspiration and training in pastels.  A member of the Camino Real 8 art group located in central New Mexico she found a passion for applying her art skills.  Upon returning to her beloved Montana in 2016 she continues to explore her love for all that is art.

 

CONTACT:  [email protected]