Barbara Frank’s work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums across the US and is included in private and corporate collections. She is a recipient of the 2016 prestigious Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant. She was also awarded an individual artist fellowship from the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities and fellowships to MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Hilai Artist and Writer Center in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
Frank received a B.A. and M.F.A. in painting and art history from the University of Maryland in College Park. She is widely known for her work on women’s arts issues in the 1970s, including the pivotal 1972 Conference for Women in the Visual Arts and as a founder of the Washington Women’s Arts Center. Her papers from that period reside in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. She lives and works in Washington, DC.
