Featured Artist: Dr. Barbara Holt

Dr. Barbara Holt is our first featured artist. She is the past president and one of the founders of the Ouachita Artists.

Barbara Holt, Ph. D., liked to draw when she was a student in the Mount Ida schools, and dabbled in art as an adult.  After earning her Bachelors Degree at Ouachita Baptist University she returned to teach one year at Mt. Ida, then taught for seven years in junior and senior high schools in California and Washington, D. C.  She spent five years teaching abroad, starting with the Peace Corps in Chile, UNESCO in Ghana and Costa Rica, and short term research and consultancies in Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Brazil, Malaysia, and others.  Her advanced degrees were earned at Cornell University in New York.  She taught at Louisiana State University for over 20 years, then retired from the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Arkansas.  She returned home to live in Montgomery County County fifty years after her family moved to Arkadelphia, and finally has time to spend developing her talent. She still likes to draw, but her major works now are in oils.  She likes to paint the beauty of the Ouachita Mountain waters and woods.