Barbara Rachko at work
Barbara Rachko was born in Paterson, New Jersey and grew up in a New York City suburb. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in psychology. After college, Barbara earned a commercial pilot’s license and Boeing 727 flight engineer’s certificate, then spent seven years on active duty as a Naval officer.
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In 1986 while working at the Pentagon, she began to study figure drawing and medical anatomy, and began many long years of developing her craft. Barbara subsequently resigned from active duty (but remained in the Navy Reserve and retired as a Commander) to devote herself to making art.
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On 9/11 Barbara’s life was changed forever when her husband, Dr. Bryan C. Jack, was killed on the plane that hit the Pentagon.
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Us and Them, Self Portrat with Bryan, photo Barbara Rachko
Dividing her time between residences in New York and Alexandria, Virginia, Barbara enjoys a busy career as a professional artist. She is represented by six galleries throughout the United States, exhibits nationally and internationally, and continues to win accolades.
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Barbara’s vibrant, unique pastel paintings use Mexican and Guatemalan cultural objects—masks, carved wooden animals, papier mâché figures, and toys and gives them a second life in the present.
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A Yale radio podcast is at http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/barbara-rachko/ and Barbara’s first eBook, “From Pilot to Painter,” is available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HNVR200
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She-embraced-it-and-grew-stronger, photo: Barbara Rack
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