Barbara Sklar

Barbara Sklar has painted for the past 38 years, full time since 1989. She studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, 1961-1964, and later at UC Berkeley and the Art Students League, New York. In 1991-1995, she was the only American to attend the Royal Watercolor Society’s annual workshops for professionals. She has studied sculpture, photography, and ceramic privately in Italy. Her works, which have been shown in New York, San Francisco, Washington, Northern California, Rome and Florence, are in public, corporate and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Sklar has served on review panels for the California Arts Council and various foundations and the San Francisco Arts Commission, the New York Foundation of the Arts Board, and the Arts in Embassies Millennium Committee. Ms. Sklar also worked for the Cultural Office of the former USIS in Washington and Sarajevo.

Ms. Sklar, who has a Masters in Planning and Administration from Case Western Cleveland, Ohio, is also a gerontologist and from 1974-1989 her professional experience included serving as the Director of Geriatric Services for the Hospital Consortium of San Mateo County, the Director of Center for Aging & Planning for Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. She served on the Board of Meals-on-Wheels, Family Services Agency, the Council of International Programs, the National Council on Aging and was the Founder and a Board Member of the National Institutes of Adult Day Care and Community-Based Long Term Care.