Fulbright Grant in Creative and Performing Arts
Marie Porterfield Barry is currently a Fulbright Research Grantee to Turkey in Creative and Performing Arts, living in Kütahya, Turkey from September 2011-June 2012. In Turkey, she is studying traditional Turkish tile painting (çini), researching the differences in the creative process between collectivist and individualist societies, and building a collaborative public art installation with Turkish artists which will later be installed in Turkey and viewable via the web.
For a personal account of her time as an artist in Kütahya, please visit http://kutahyailluminated.wordpress.com/
