Barbara De Pirro

Barbara De Pirro creates environmental, mixed media sculptures, and installations. Her observations of nature have triggered a profound admiration for its brilliance, resilience, and its vulnerability. With each project she strives to create a sense of wonder, enticing the viewer to turn that vision outwards into the natural world, nurturing an appreciation, an understanding of that interconnection, and encouraging a sense of protection.

Barbara’s artwork has been commissioned and exhibited in museums, sculpture parks, art organizations, biennials, art centers, galleries, and public spaces. This list includes Museum of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Glass, Schack Art Center, Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Method Gallery, Bellevue Biennial, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and Tacoma Arts. She is also a member of Northwest Designer Craftsman and Surface Design Association.

In 2016, Barbara received a Fellowship to attend an arts residency at Millay Colony for the Arts. In 2010, she received a GAP Award funding which helped fund her installation projects that year.