| Barbara
entered the art business at age
14 when she produced and sold
illustrations, portraits and
hand-painted crafts in her native
Arkansas. She graduated cum laude
from the University of Dallas as
a sculpture major in 1976, having
developed a new alloy and
technique for her cast metal
work. In the following year, she
earned her BFA degree from
Arkansas State University, where
she studied printmaking and
jewelry.
Since college, Barbara has curated, designed and installed over one
hundred art exhibitions. Her own paintings, drawings, sculptures,
and prints have been featured in more than one hundred exhibits,
including over forty shows at American museums and universities.
Her
artwork has been selected in national competition by such prestigious
jurors as art historian Dr. Peter Selz of Art in America
and Mr. Thomas Armstrong III, Director of the Whitney Museum of Art. Examples
of Barbara's art were displayed at the Fourth World Conference on Women
in Beijing, China; her artwork is
now part of the permanent
collections of the Arkansas Arts
Center, the State of Arkansas,
and the University of Dallas.
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| Barbara
resumed her graduate studies in
art law and business at Arizona
State University in 1987. Her extensive
academic research resulted in monographs on art consignment
law and on accounting for
visual artists at risk in the
production of non-multiple
images. Since 1994, she has
authored and published a series
of tax manuals for visual artists
known as the
Quick-Fix TaxKits.
In 1997, Barbara completed her doctoral dissertation entitled American
Taxation and the Visual Arts,
reflecting her dual career in tax
and the arts. She is currently
working on her
Do-It-Yourself Art Market
Survival Kit, her
25-year retrospective,
and her mother's cookbook.
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Barbara received her Juris Doctorate in Tax Law from LaSalle
University in 1997. She has worked as a business consultant
under the name AKAS II for more than 10 years in estate planning and tax
matters for artists and other small businesses throughout the United
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