Barbara A. Sloan
Barbara Sloan, age 67, of Hot Springs passed away on March 17, 2021. On Sept. 24, 1953, Barbara A. Sloan was born in Jonesboro, Ark., the fourth child of Ana (Antosiewicz) Sloan, of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Clay Albert Lynch Sloan, of Jonesboro, Ark.
Affectionately known as Barb, she attended Hot Springs High School and graduated with the class of 1971, and continued her education by graduating from the University of Dallas, B.A., Arkansas State University, BFA and LaSalle, JD.
Barbara loved all things beautiful, flowers, the sound, and the sight of water. With such an illustrious career, one of her fondest memories was taking her younger siblings to Brady Mountain. It was among the beauty of her surroundings that her art career was nurtured and here in her own hometown of Hot Springs, Ark., in 1968 she created 16 illustrations for the Catholic nuns at St. Joseph’s Hospital for their St. Louis province.
There are no listings of jobs that Barb had that were not connected to art, writing, or sculptures. A creative eye, a genius mind, and an eclectic way of seeing life was her passion, making her sensitive to those around her, aware of their heart intentions, this gift served to direct her path to efforts that would be much bigger than herself. And being 5’3” tall, her stern behavior, not only displayed a maturity beyond her years but allowed her to ‘stand her ground’ long before it became a catch phase. In the early 1970s, the world was opening to women to blaze trails in many areas and our Barb took advantage of these many artistic open doors without wavering.
By 1982, some 14 years and many awards later, her paintings, sculptures, and drawings were being juried into national shows at university museums by New York curators from the Met, the MoMA, and the Whitney. Soon afterward, her art was being collected in places like Chicago and Sydney and Frankfurt, and Phoenix. Examples of her art were displayed at the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, and one of her artworks is in the permanent collection of the Arkansas Arts Center was used in 2011 to promote the museum’s very first poetry slam.
As an author, her words have appeared in numerous publications, including books and magazines such as “Art Marketing 101” and “International Art Gallery.” Her 1997 Law dissertation, American taxation and the Visual Arts enabled her Do-It-Yourself QuickFix TaxKits, begun in December
1994 as an ongoing series of tax guides for artists doing business in the United States.
As the owner of AKAS II, she provided art-related services and products to clients in all 50 states. Her business was the offspring of Ana’s Kitchen Art Services, a multi-service art gallery and educational facility established with sister Linda in Hot Springs in 1984 by this former college instructor, arts administrator, and foundryman.
Recipient of the 1979 Arkansas Governor’s Award for a Brady Mountain-themed painting, she became an Artists’ Liaison National Competition winner in 1987. She also served on the initial Arkansas Artists’ Registry Advisory Board and the Arkansas Arts Council’s Visual Art Grants Review Panel. She was co-president of the Phoenix Chapter of Women in Design International, chief trustee of the Hanor-Westfall Memorial Fund for Artists in Hot Springs, and founder of the Marjorie Lawrence Project in Garland County.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-sentinel-record/20130217/281517928521722 Barbara Sloan, a foundryman says a lot about Barb and how there was nothing that would stand in her way to accomplish a task. Even when that task was pausing her career in Arizona and returning home to help care for her mother and grandmother. She would serve with great determination. There was an incident in the life of Marjorie Lawrence that best explains Barbs’ outlook on her own and life in general:
“…. A single Metropolitan performance followed in 1944, but General Manager Edward Johnson (who had partnered Arkansas’s Mary Lewis in her operatic debut at the house in 1926), considered a wheelchair-bound Isolde to be “unsightly.” Support, however, came from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
1943: “From an old veteran to a young recruit—my message to you is— ‘Carry on!’” She sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at his 1945 inauguration and later met privately with him.”
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents, Clay and Ana Sloan; her maternal grandparents, Edvard and Ana Cebulj Antosiewicz; and her paternal grandparents, Eugene and Beatrice (Lynch) Sloan. https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_ Antosiewicz
She leaves behind to cherish her memories and honor her accomplishments, Mrs. Andre Anders (Aunt Birdy); siblings, Anamarija Sloan, Linda Sloan, Peggy Sloan, Dr. Gene Sloan, Dona Sloan Blankenship, Mike Sloan, and Andre Sloan. Extended family members, Dr. Mimi Lee, Ken Blankenship, Susan Williams Sloan, and Chrystal Sloan; and a host of nieces; cousins; and friends.
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The guest registry is at https://www.carriganmemorial. com.
Arrangements are entrusted to Carrigan Memorial Funeral Services.