CHELLE
BARBOUR
visual artist
 

Chelle Barbour is an interdisciplinary visual artist, cultural producer, and independent curator. While her initial foray into the arts began in theatre, Chelle's art has expanded into a fully engaged practice of collage and mixed media design,  writing, and photography  Chelle's artwork has been presented in solo, gallery and museum exhibitions. Her collage and photographic works are in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, the Photographic Archive at the  J. Paul Getty Museum, The Wende Museum, Bank of America Collection, The Richard Seavest Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and other private art collections.

As an institutional collaborator, Chelle has participated in international panel discussions at The Wende Museum  exhibition for The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain, she was a symposium moderator for We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1960-1985 at CAAM, and a discussant on the lively College Art Association panel, How Will Feminist Culture Engage the Future?"   Chelle has led collage workshops, lectures, and conversations at UC Riverside, LACMA, Azusa Pacific University, Vassar College,  Harvey Gantt Center for African America Art , Kidspace Museum, Riverside Art Museum, and other. For  institutional collaborations, workshops, art acquisitions or commissions, or please email  chellebarbourstudio@gmail.com.

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