2024-2025 Artist of the Year

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Barbara Archer-Baldwin


Stepping Across


12” x 16”


Pastel Premier. 


Reference photos from a hike in Clifton Gorge, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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Originally from Swarthmore, PA, Barbara and her husband John Baldwin relocated to Tucson in February, 2024 after living in Florida for over 25 years. She is an academically schooled professional artist with training at Rhode Island School of Design, Philadelphia University of the Arts, and Temple University's Tyler School of Fine Arts. She has been represented by the Four Corners Gallery since May 2024. She is a Signature Member of Pastel Society of America, as well as the Pastel Society of the West Coast, and the Arizona Pastel Artists Association.  and a member of several other national Pastel Societies. She has been juried into the most prestigious Salmagundi Club, NYC.
Her teaching experience is long and widely varied, though, since moving, she limits her teaching to one-day workshops. Her prolific work includes illustrations for published books and periodicals, works in oil, acrylic, pen and ink, pastel, and miniature art, and hangs in collections all over the world.  She has been consistently juried into National and International Pastel Shows, winning awards in many of them.
She and husband John founded the Left Coast Pastel Painters Society, in Florida, with affiliation in the International Assoc. of Pastel Societies. Still members there, they are now very active with the local Tucson Pastel Society.
[email protected], www.barbaraarcherbaldwin.com