Dorothea Barrick

Spring Branch Studio
13 Polly Trail
Fairfield, PA 17320

717-642-6793
240-674-9488

dorotheart@cs.com
www.cdlimited.com

ARTIST STATEMENT
Having a BFA and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Ms. Barrick has taught painting, drawing and printmaking in various capacities to all ages. She solely organized the studio art program at Mt. St. Mary’s University in 1973 and was professor until 1981. At Hood College she taught printmaking through an artist-in-residency program from 1964 to 2000. Awarded grants from the Adams County Arts Council and the PA Partners in the Arts, Dorothea taught etching at Gettysburg High School and the oil of wintergreen transfer technique to select students at Fairfield High School. She is currently teaching acrylic painting at the Imagination Station, Gettysburg, and acrylic, watercolor and pastels for Continued Learning at Frederick Community College. Her skills also involve working with the challenged students in the Success Program, Frederick Community College. Ms. Barrick gives private lessons at her Spring Branch Studio in Carroll Valley. Her organic floral and landscape paintings, monotypes and etchings are in many private and public collections, including Kala Institute of Printmaking, Berkeley, CA, University of Maryland, Lehigh University, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Printmakers Archives, and the Brevard Museum of Arts and Sciences, Melbourne, Florida.