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. [Return to the Barbara Leventhal-Stern]         BARBARA LEVENTHAL-STERN Barbara Leventhal-Stern was born in Springfield, Ohio. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons. Her parents helped her to attend art classes at an early age. Her formal education began at Washington University in St. Louis and The Boston Museum School. Her undergraduate studies continued in England, where she attended The London Polytech and taught drawing for the Workers Educational Association, in Cambridge. Back in the U.S., she earned a Masters in painting and printmaking by attending The Claremont Graduate School of Art. She graduated from San Jose State University. Later she earned a Masters in counseling and has worked to combine Art and Therapy. She has been given grants from a variety of institutions including The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, The San Francisco Community Foundation, and Arts Council of Silicon Valley. She has developed projects in underserved populations that have included hospitalized children, residents of group homes, and adolescents on probation. The two most dominant things in her work are how memories are processed and the effects of trauma on the human imagination. She is drawn to the narratives people construct to help them deal with life events that are chaotic, and beyond reason. In this direction, her work for the last three years has been concerned with Jewish life Eastern Europe before Nazi occupation and destruction. Barbara's work has been shown in the United States, Europe and Asia. [Barbara Leventhal-Stern | Top]