Barbara Trachtenberg: October 2010

About

Narration drives Trachtenberg's painting, photographs and writing. She is a mixed media painter, portrait and street photographer and writer who was a writing fellow in her 30s at MacDowell Colony. Her writing has appeared at Boston City Hall and published in Words and Images, Multicultural Review, ArtsEditor, Latin American Anthropology Review, and The NewEnglander magazine. Her earliest writing—a hitchhiker’s travel memoir in early 60s Europe—was pushed by her drive to meet Hungarian relatives who had survived the holocaust. Her work in PEN New England's Prison Writing Program and at Boston’s Writers’ Room is fed by her training as an ethnographer and teacher of handicapped children. Her visual work reflect this story-telling orientation in which her characters are often displaced emotionally or geographically.

Barbara Trachtenberg

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10.03.2010