Barbara Hageman Sarvis was born and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey and academically trained at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, Vermont Studio Center, The Charles Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy, Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia.  In addition, she continued graduate studies at the University of North Florida in art and special education.  She  worked as an apprentice to Audrey Flack in the 1970's.  She is an artist, educator and writer  living in Vermont after a successful career in art education and administration.  During the past ten years, she  wrote, illustrated and published five children's books.  Several of her paintings have been published by the following  literary and art journals: Voices, Midwestern State University's Art and Literary Journal, Two Hawks Literary Journal Quarterly, Fall, 2022, Antioch University, Los Angeles, TwistedVine Literary & Arts Journal, Western New Mexico University.  Fire Ring II is one of forty art pieces accepted into the art show "Spiritual Vision" at Fonnebonne University, 2023.

At present she is an Art Instructor at The Community College of Vermont, in Bennington and a teaching artist at The Monument Art and Cultural center in Bennington Vermont.
 

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Artist Statement

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In the winter of 2020, Covid-19 re-introduced me to several unfinished paintings hanging in my studio.  For several weeks I stared at the images on the canvas while listening to the daily news.  Feelings of rage, sadness and powerlessness overpowered me regarding immigration, systemic racism, climate change, equal rights and a woman's right to choose.  The paintings could not longer exist as a portrait, landscape or floral, but instead became visual stories with the hope for positive change.