Barbara Zeigler

BARBARA ZEIGLER has been exhibiting prints and drawings nationally and internationally since the early 70s, with her prints having been in over 85 group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and abroad. The last major project completed before beginning work on the collaborative project with Joan Smith was the Precarious Balances series of prints and drawings, shown at various public galleries across Canada. She studied at the Akademie der bildenden Kunste in Munich, Germany for two and a half years, and at the Universitat Munchen in the late sixties and early seventies, and received a BFA in painting, and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Barbara Zeigler has taught at the University of Alberta, Queen's University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and since 1979 at the University of British Columbia, where she is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts. Barbara has received three UBC/SSHRC grants related to the development of Earthmakers. 115