Virginia artist, Barbara Crawford, has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her current work includes one-day, site specific installations that result in individual videos. The series of world amphitheatres includes Teatro Andromeda, Sicily, The Ancient Roman Theatre, Orange France, Red Rocks, Denver, Colorado and Crawick Multiverse, Scotland. Another series of world genebanks includes the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway and the INIA National Seed Bank in Vicuna, Chile. Residencies include The Arctic Circle, the American Academy in Rome, the Tyrone Guthrie Center for Creative Art, Ireland, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Scuola Internationale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, the Cite’ International des Arts in Paris, France and a research fellow at the Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy..

She is founder of Women Artists in the Arctic and producer of Must Study Ice which joins STEM women in the Antarctic and Women Artists in the Arctic.

In 2009 she was Cy Twombly’s assistant for the creation of The Ceiling for the Louvre, Paris. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College and a Master of Arts from James Madison University. She is professor of Art and Art History at Southern Virginia University.