Barbara Frazier

Women in Education, Women in the Arts

In her formative years, a young Barbara kindled imagination and creativity in Spanish Fork, Utah. Because the city limits were still quite rural, she played outdoors and this allowed her to create her own entertainment. She observed her father collect unwanted materials to transform them into reusable objects. This upbringing transpired into her contemporary art work which re-articulates photography into unconventional images. This is cultivated in works such as “Limbic Work” an installation with large negative-like silhouettes interconnected with metal, and a work in-progress based on weather patterns within photographs. As a teacher at Utah Valley University she encourages her pupils to push their conceptions of photography as a medium similar to her former teacher Barbara Wardle.