Carmen Barros Howell
37803 Allder School Road • Purcellville, Va.22032
Tel: (540) 338-6412 • Fax: (540) 338-1414
Email: carmenbarros42@hotmail.com

Born in Santiago, Chile

• 1970-1980 Teacher, Loudoun Valley Community Center
• 1980 Virginia Endowment for the Arts for Teaching
• 1980 Started Art Program, Emerick Elementary School
• 1980-1985 Art classes for children at home studio
• 1985-1986 Art classes, Loudoun Country Day School
• 1994 Natural Light School for the Arts
• Present Loudoun Academy of the Arts

• 2006
  • Rose Gallery, Hudson NY 12534
  • Showing at Hickok Cole WPA and Corcoran Art Shows
  • Washington Museum, Hagerstown, Md Group Show
• 2005
  • El Valle de Los Artistas member of the community and represented in the Sculpture Park
• 2004
  • Solo Show Gallery 222
• 2002-03
  • Arts Feminae, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC
• 2002
  • Arslatino, Embassy of Chile, Washington DC
  • Gallery 222," Bodies, Mind and Spirit" Solo Show
  • Washington DC, Pittsburgh, at Washington Square, Washington DC, Group Show, Juror Andrea Pollan
• 2001
  • "Sculpture Now"
  • Gallery 222, Group Shows
• 2000
  • "Chilean Artists at the Threshold of the Millennium"
  • The Artists Museum, Washington, DC
  • Rose Gallery, Group Shows
  • Northern Virginia Community College Art Festival
• 1999
  • Washington Sculptors "Sculpture NOW 99" Juried by Willem de Looper
  • Rose Gallery, Leesburg, Va (Solo Show)
• 1997-98
  • Susan Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, Va.
  • Harrison Norris Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• 1997
  • Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
  • Arts Club of Washington, Washington D.C.
• 1996
  • Designers House Show, Design Center, Washington, D.C. drawings and sculptures selected by "Mill Company"
• 1995-96
  • Misia Broadhead Gallery member, work on display year round 1995-96
  • Moscoso Gallery, member, work available
• 1994
  • Art Museum of the Americas, "Across Borders/Sin Fronteras"
  • Artempo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Limelight "Final Acts," Leesburg, Va.
• 1993
  • Congresswoman Eleonor Holmes Norton "Volume, Lines, Color"
  • The Greater Washington Collection Of Fine Arts "8 Sculptors From The 2 Virginias"
  • Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Art Gallery, "Dialogues"
  • International Monetary Fund Art Society Gallery "Building Bridges"
• 1992
  • The District of Columbia Public Library "Journeys," juried by Luciano Penay and Lee Mills
  • Loudoun Arts Council "Body Electric" juried by Jo Anne Lewis. Critic for Arts News
  • Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton "New Ways"
  • The FNMA Art Exhibition "Encounters"
  • The Greater Washington Collection of Fine Arts
• 1991
  • Member, Greater Washington Collection of Fine Arts, shows at The Gallery, Leesburg, VA, in September
  • The Gallery, Sculpture Exhibition, November.
• 1990
  • Museum of Modern Art of Latin America Organization of American States, "Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties," June 7 - September 8.
  • Greater Reston Arts Center, "Past as Prologue," Juried by Willem de Looper
  • Martin Luther King Memorial Library "An Exhibition by International Artists"
  • National Council of La Raza, "Latin Roots"
  • Baltimore National Symphony Fundraising Show
• 1988-1989
  • City Gallery, Washington D.C., participant in monthly group shows
• 1989
  • Martin Luther King Memorial Library
  • City Gallery, Washington D.C., "Three Latin American Artists"
  • Arlington Art Center, show juried by Franz Bader
  • Washington Museum, juried annual show
  • Studio Tour, Loudoun Council of the Arts
• 1987-1991
  • Artspring Festival of the Arts, Lucketts, VA.
• 1986
  • Washington Museum Group Show, Hagerstown, MD.
  • Loudoun County Administration Building Gallery Group Show, September.
  • Loudoun Museum Juried Show, May, juried by Andrew Hudson
• 1985
  • Grace Gallery, Reston, VA, April show juried by Willem de Looper
  • Arlington Art Center, March show juried by Barbara Price
• 1984-1986
  • Alexandria Art League, member Participant in monthly juried shows; juror for September 1984 show was David Tannous
• 1984
  • Loudoun County Administrative Building Gallery, One-person Show, December
  • Washington Museum Group Show, Hagerstown, MD.
  • Arlington Art Center, member since September, 1984
• 1982
  • Washington Museum Group Show, Hagerstown, MD.
• 1980
  • Guest sculptor, Loudoun County Sketch Club participant in club shows since
  • shows juried by David Tannous, Jack Boul and others
• 1980-1990
  • Waterford group art show, 2nd prizes in sculpture, 1980, 1982, 1988
• 1968
  • Group show in Salisbury, MD.Works owned by several private collectors Commissions, Private collectors