Temme Barkin-Leeds

Graphite, acrylic and oil on canvas

20" x 16"

Temme Barkin-Leeds received the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University
and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in Washington, DC. Her sociallyconscious work has been the subject of four solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States. She was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and a Resident Fellow at the Hambidge Center. In addition, Barkin-Leeds received the Elizabeth Baart Biddle Award conferred by the full faculty in the MFA program at American University, Washington DC. She also received the International Education Foundation
Scholarship from Georgia State University to study at the Santa Reparata International School in Florence, Italy. She was nominated by the faculty in the Art Department at Georgia State University for the school-wide Andrew West Award. In the past several years, she has been juried into New York exhibitions by critics Jerry Saltz, John Yau, and Nancy Princenthal. She has received numerous exhibition awards including purchase awards and awards of merit. She was selected by
the Georgia Women's History Month Committee and the Georgia Commission on Women to be honored at a reception highlighting Georgia women in the arts. She was the State of Georgia's representative on the Millennium "Gift to the Nation" Committee of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies in Washington, DC. Most recently, she was adjunct professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. Her work was featured in several publications including
the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Burnaway, Arts Atl, Atlanta Jewish Times, Amlit, Paintpresent catalogue published by Loudon House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky, and Bound catalogue published by Women's Caucus for Art and Gallery 110, Seattle.Washington.