Barbara Lidfors - BIO / VITA 

        I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, across the street from the college where my father was an art professor. I discovered early on that something magical happened            whenever I sat at our kitchen table strewn with colored pencils, paints and paper. Art continued to be important to me in the ensuing years as I honed my technical          art skills and shared them in various teaching situations. In 2001 I earned an MFA degree and began painting full-time. The many decades I lived in Germany were            years that focused my artistic direction and opened up exciting opportunities to exhibit over 100 times in numerous countries. Apparently my artistic impulse finds          joy in painting the people and places that I encounter wherever I happen to be. I look for significance, beauty and meaning in the life around me.  And I gladly                  share this with those who view my works.

• 1967           Graduated from Murray High School, St.Paul, MN
• 1967-69      Bachelor of Arts studies at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA 
• 1969-71      B.A. from Bethel College, St. Paul, MN                     
• 1971-72      Taught school in St. Paul, MN  
• 1972            Married Bob Lidfors                                                                                     
• 1982            Moved with family of six - plus dog - to Germany, where we lived for the next 38 years!  
•                     Learned how to speak German with a "cute" American accent!     
• 1984-2020   Grew my art career from my studio while living in the Fürth / Nürnberg region of Germany  
• 1999-2001   Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Norwich University  
• 2001-2005   Assistant Adjunct Professor for Art at University of Maryland in Europe 
• 2001-2020   Painted and exhibited artwork in over a hundred solo and group exhibitions in 9 other countries  
• 2020            Moved back to our home-town roots in Minnesota - just  in time for the Pandemic!  
• 2020 +         I now paint full-time and teach painting and drawing classes at the Minnetonka Art Center, Orono, MN