Education

• 1985 M.A. Graduate Department of Art, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
• 1978 Claremont Graduate School of Art Claremont, CA
• 1972 B.F.A. The Boston Museum School, Boston, MA
• 1972 Tufts University, Medford, MA
• 1972 Tufts University in London, England
• 1972 The London Polytech, London, England
• 1966 Washington University School of Fine Arts, St Louis, MO

Grants and Prizes

• 2004 Mentor, Carrie Abramovitz Scholarship Fund, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
• 2003 Fellowship for Visual Artist, Arts Council Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
• 2001 Prize, North American Print Competition, Boston University, Boston, MA
• 2001 Grant/Philanthropic Venture Foundation, Oakland, CA
• 1995 Grant/Arts Connect, Santa Clara Arts Council, San Jose, CA
• 1989 Grant to an Individual Artist, The Peninsula Community Foundation, San Francisco, CA
• 1986 Prize/Rank Xerox Corporation, London, England
• 1985 Grant/Ann Flanagan Residency Program, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
• 1975 Grant to an Individual Artist, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, New Haven, CT
• 1975 Merry Jane Kravitz Scholarship, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

Collections

• The National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center Washington D.C.
• Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
• The Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
• The Museum of Modern Art, Ljublana, Yugoslavia
• The Dayton Museum, Dayton, OH
• Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
• The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
• Rutgers University, IN
• The Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA
• Jewish Family Services, Palo Alto, CA
• The Rhoda Goldman Center, San Francisco, CA
• The Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto, CA
• Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
• The Junior Museum, Palo Alto, CA
• Cranbrook-Kingswood School, Bloomfield Hills, MI
• Truckee Meadows Junior College, Reno, Nevada
• Gallery Fort, Cadaques, Spain
• Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel

Selected Group Shows

• Intaglio Edition from Made in California Press, Dolby Chadwick, San Francisco, CA
• If They Could Talk, Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• The Art of the Game, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 24 Years of Prints, B. Sakato Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Bittersweet Legacy, The Holocaust Memorial Museum, Maitland, FL

• Insomnia, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
• Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
• Face to Face, Platt/Borstein Gallery, The University of Judaism, Bel Air, CA
• Woodcuts, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV

• Perspectives on Printmaking, Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA

• Recent Acquisitions, The Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
• Bittersweet Legacy, Rose Shenson Gallery, The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
• Los Angeles Printmakers, Leband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
• Prints, Silvermine Gallery, New Cancean, CT

• Faultlines and Watermarks/California/Amsterdam, Amsterdam Grafish Atelier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Woodcuts, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
• Woodcuts and Etchings, Cecile Moochneck Gallery, Berkeley, CA
• Prints, Blue Pony Gallery, Charlotte, NC

• Hidden, Concealed and Revealed, Fine, Perlow, and Weiss Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
• Winter Light, Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA
• Transition and Tradition in the 90's, Soma Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• The Fantastic Image, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
• Trial by Fire, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Women Confronting the Issue of Age, San Jose Institute of Contemporary art, San Jose, CA
• Personal Transformations, Bade Museum, Pacific Graduate School of Religion, Berkeley, CA

• Taking Flight, bound portfolio, Colliphony Books, San Francisco, CA
• The Prints and the Paper, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
• Primavera, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Prints, Syntex Gallery, Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

• Creating the Edge, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
• Telling Stories, (Artists Books and Journels,) Prieto Gallery, Mill College, Oakland, CA

• Biennial Exhibition of Woodcuts in Banska Bystrica, The Czechoslavak Socialist Republic
• Freehand Drawing Loosely Defined, Euphrate Gallery, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA
• Introductions, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Idiomatic Images, Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

• Boston Printmakers, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

• Woodcut Prints, Garden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
• B.C. Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
• A Book in Hand, Arvada Center For the Arts, Arvada, CO
• A Different Dimension, Seip Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

• Imprint, Print from New Zealand and Santa Clara County, San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA
• Prints With a Point, Hard Times Gallery, Bristol, England
• The American Minature Printmaker, San Diego State University, traveling show to India and the Far East

• The Biennial of Graphic Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
• Ann Flanagan Award Winners, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
• Women's Autobiographical Books, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI
• Introductions, Barbara Leventhal-Stern and Sandra Beard, The Art Corridor, Atherton, CA
• Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Undercover: Artists Books, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
• Bird in Hand Gallery, Washington, D.C.

• Tradition and Innovation in Printmaking Today, Rank Xerox Corporation, England.
• Prints, University Press Books, Berkeley, CA
• Prints in Kanagawa, Kanagawa, Japan
• The Peoples Gallery, London, England.

• Cabo Frio Print Biennial, Cabo Frio, Brazil
• International, Engravings, Gallery Fort, Cadaques, Spain
• Printed by Women, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA
• Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA

• Boston Printmakers, DeCordova Museum Lincoln, MA
• Surface Marks, Libra Gallery, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
• The Women's Building Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

• Critic's Pick, Victoria Dalkey, Art Critic, Sacramento Bee, June 2004
• Previews, Debra Koppman, Artweek Magazine, November 2004
• Insomnia: Landscapes of the Night, Susan Morse, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. March, 2003
• Night Hawks: Two Exhibits Explore Insomnia, Anna Gawel, The Washington Diplomat June, 2003
• Fellowship Show, Jack Fischer, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, July, 2003
• Arts Council Silicon Valley Grant Winners, Artweek Volume 34, issue 7, September 2003
• Hummingbird Conditions, Poetry by Esther Kamkar, Woodcuts by Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Ziba Press, Palo Alto, CA
• Calyx A Journal of Art and Literature for women, Vol. 20, No.3, Summer 2002, Corvalis, OR
• The Human Condition through Body and Narrative , Terese Rohan, Gallery at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA, 2001
• Bittersweet Legacy/Studies in the Shoah, Cynthia Moskowitz Brody, editor, University Press of America, New York, Oxford 2001
• The Monserrat Review, Cynthia Lowe, editor, woodcut by Barbara Leventhal-Stern

• Printmaker Drawn to Arts Healing Power, Kimberly Chen, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1998
• Staying on Board, Jim Harrington, Arts and Entertainment The Palo Alto Weekly, May 1998
• Crossing the Line/Prints and Pastels by Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Signe Mayfield, curator, Palo Alto Cultural Center, May 1998
• Zyzzyva, Howard Junker, editor, woodcut by Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Spring 1997
• Exhibit at Montalvo Tells a Story, Shari Kaplan, Los Gatos Weekly Times, May 1997
• Six Artists Whose Works Speak, Martin Cheek, Triumph Magazine, San Jose, Fall 1997
• Deep from the Well, Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Detail/ A Journal of Art Criticism, San Jose, CA
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• A Colorful Mad Menagerie of Art to Bring Out the Animal in You, Dorothy Burkhart, San Jose Mercury News, July 1991
• A Room of One's Own, Eric Reyes, Metro, April 1991
• Intriguing Intro, Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, July 21, 1991
• Saying Alive, Tim Goodman, The Palo Alto Weekly, August 15, 1990

• The Art of Healing: Working it out on Paper, Sandra Park, Pacific View Magazine, Spring 1989
• Love, Loss, and Relationships, Kathleen Donnelly, The Palo Alto Weekly, November 1988
• Around the Galleries, Jane Ayres, San Jose Mercury News, April 1989
• An Interaction with Artists, Anna Novakov, Artweek, July 1988
• In the Gallery, Cathleen Bowen, Metier, Winter 1988
• Agada, Reuben Goldfrad, editor, illustrations, Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Berkeley, CA
• Kala Printmaking, Image Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, December 13, 1987
• New Prints at Local Workshops, World Print Courier, Anna Novakaov, editor
• Worth a Look, Karen Croft, Palo Alto Weekly, July 1, 1987
• Contemporary Jewish Themes in Californians, WestArt, March , 1987
• Personalizing Big Issues in Prints, Susan Wolfe, Arts and Entertainment, Palo Alto Weekly, June, 1986
• Artist's Bizarre Works in Stanford Show, Sylvia Rode, San Jose Mercury News, September, 1984
• Printed by Women, Saray Van Keuren Steinbrook, The Philadelphia Photos Review, Vol. 7, No. 3
• Tight Formats for Diffuse Anger, Sylvia Roder, Artweeks, October, 1983
• The Arts, Tonia MacNeal, Palo Alto Weekly, May, 1982
• Artistic Variety, Peninsula Times Tribune, January, 1982
• Dreamy Photographs and Drawings, WestArt, January, 1982

• A New View of the Condition of Age, Ann Miller, The New Haven Advocate, Spring 1976
• Speaking Books, Arthur F. Beringause, The Jewish Press, Spring 1976
• Judah and Yoni, Ruth Zakutinsky, author, illustrations by Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Aura Press, New Haven, CT, 1975