516 Arts

Barbara Geary leads 516 ARTS education and community outreach program. She organizes and leads educational tours and activities for schools, community centers, and other groups. She previously worked with Littleglobe in Santa Fe, a nonprofit, arts education organization focusing on community-based art. She brings a wealth of arts education experience in visual and performing arts, as well as skills in administration, management and film/video production. As a visual artist, Geary has extensive experience as a mask maker and has exhibited her ceramic sculpture around the country. In the film industry, she worked as an editor on feature films and animation shorts. As a theatre artist, she is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where she later served as the registrar/student advocate and actor/creator in the Dell’Arte Company. She has created, produced, and performed with many renowned theatre companies including Imago-Theatre Mask Ensemble and the Kitchen Theater in Ithaca, New York. She has taught children and adults in a variety of arts contexts, and developed and taught a graduate level course on physical expression for animators at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her varied experience is a wonderful addition to the group of artists who staff 516 ARTS.

516 ARTS is an independent, nonprofit arts venue located in downtown Albuquerque. The space houses a two-story gallery and offers programs that address current issues in world culture, presenting innovative and interdisciplinary exhibitions, events, and educational activities in a variety of art forms, including visual and literary arts, film/video, and music.