Life is all she has imagined it to be and she has the imagination of a child, having brought that with her from some strange land…. Liberal, Kansas…. Pancake Hub of the Universe…. …. Kansas Day…. Cold winter night. God crocheted snowflakes and Daddy brought Mama red roses in the snow.
Words and feelings and visual images are important to her, having always and only wanted to be an artist. That is easily said and not so easily proved but she believes that too is only a feeling and when she can relate that to her audience (?) she will have her proof; for experience is the only proof she knows.

She struggles, learns the hard way to express the wind and searches to find a way. In too true a sense, she scatters her forces to the winds, another name for that strange land she is a product of.
An oilfield brat with a taste for finer things. Life is a paradox…. Not to be measured by hands on a clock.
Expressed in only words: mother, teacher, lover, and wife, independent and different and not always nice.
Presented here is Barbara Love Newport’s unique form of Layering Art.
Layering is a tangible, metaphor that imbues the work with meaning.
These projects typically begin their journey as sketched, painted, photographic or sculptural elements.  
After digitalization, B. Love add further elements to the
collage  mix  using the computer .
The computer is the palette of the twenty-first century's artist. Like palette of old, however, the post-modern artist needs to blend its paints to create works that are uniquely the artist's own.
B. Love mixes the computer palette of image, color and technological techniques with imagination to create powerful expressions across the visual spectrum.

EDUCATION/TRAINING:
The Art Institute of Phoenix, Phoenix AZ, June 1998
Computer Animation, Associate of Applied Sciences Degree
Honor Roll  GPA 3.9
Merit Scholarship
Perfect Attendance Award
Computer Software
* 3D Studio MAX R2                   * MetaCreations Painter
* Adobe Illustrator                         * Macromedia Director
* Adobe Photoshop                     * QuarkXPress
Phoenix Community College, Phoenix AZ
Psychology
Seward County Community College, Liberal KS
Art-continuing education
Art Instruction School, Minneapolis MN
Commercial Art and Advertising
EXPERIENCE:
1990 to Present BS LOVE PRODUCTIONS, mobile studio, personally designed converted GMC bus Owner-artist Graphic commercial designs, wearable art and children’s books, author and illustrator
1969 to Present    ANNUAL FOLK ART FESTIVAL, 38TH Year, Liberal KS
Founder & Chairperson 1969-1983
PEORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT, after school program, Peoria AZ
Art Education Instructor, Kindergarten through sixth grade
1974 to 1986  CATASTROPHE WORKSHOP, Liberal KS
Owner operator Ceramic and hotglass studio specializing in sculptural, handbuilt, raku ware and instructional workshops
ARCHITECTUAL CERAMIC SYMPOSIUM, Women’s Interart Center, New York NY Juried delegate of twelve member core group in $40,000 competition award
1978 to 1986 SEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Liberal KS Humanities/Art Department Ceramics instructor, introductory to advanced courses
1969 to 1980 KANSAS STATE EXTENSION SERVICE Cultural Arts Council, Manhattan KS Arts Chairman, Southwest Kansas Area, included 26 counties
SPECIAL INTEREST:
Scuba diving, extensive travel, people who have innovative or
intuition abilities and work in unstructured situations, with imagination and creativity.