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16 Barbara Earl Thomas
Barbara Earl Thomas is an artist, a maker, a writer, and a thinker. In her nearly forty years of making art across many mediums, her work shines light upon the sublime that exists within the ordinary, and the confluences of history and mythology that exist within us all. Thomas likens herself to a crow who scavenges, closely observing the world around her and picking up the shiny pieces. Her work often creates mini-biographies of her subjects that say, “This is how I see you. You are bigger and better and shinier than you even know.”