Educated in Wyoming, Barry received a Bachelor of Social Work with Honors from the
University of Wyoming, as well as an Associate of Applied Science in Social Work degree
from Casper College. He is an alumni of the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity, and was a member of
the Golden Key Honor Society. Barry has been nominated to "Who's Who in the West", and
selected as one of the Outstanding Young Men in America. He also is a member of the
National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Student Social Workers.

Barry's career has included being a Leadman for Wyoming Machine Company, a practicum
student for Natrona County School District #1, and a Career Development Specialist for
Casper College.

Much of Barry Reed's artwork has been displayed at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C. He has also exhibited his work locally, regionally, and nationally.
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Steve Welch
I started drawing when I was eight years old and worked in pencil and charcoal until I was in
Junior High School. I believe I was fourteen years old when I won a school art contest. A
women's organization in my home town sponsored a year's worth of classes from a local
artist and that's when I began working in oils.

I continued painting and drawing through high school until my junior year when I was
paralyzed in a car accident. I completed high school and went on to college majoring in
business administration. It wasn't until my third year in college that I began to work in
watercolors, but that was only on weekends when I had time from my studies.

In 1984, I began taking art courses part time at the local junior college and the University of
Wyoming. I've learned a lot from the instructors I've had as well as from the many art
students and professional artists I met. For the last three years I have not been as prolific
in completing works as I'd like to be because I've just completed my B.A. Degrees
in secondary art education and fine arts.

For the last nine years I've been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to teach after
school and summer classes in painting and drawing to all ages of children and adults. If
there were fifty hours in a day I would still not have enough time to complete all the ideas
and art projects I have in mind. There are few mediums I haven't tried and all that I have
worked in I've enjoyed. My teaching art and my art work itself is slowly improving and
is getting more enjoyable.
VSA Arts Artists Registry Steve Welch


Kurt Fross
Powell, WY
Discipline: Visual Arts
Media: Painting
"I paint the things that I most understand. Cowboying in the modern era, cattle, horses, and
the men and women who work them. What I most want to convey is how it feels to do what
I used to do, where I used to do it."
VSA Arts Artists Registry Kurt Fross

Paulette Haukaas
Ft. Washakie, WY
Discipline: Visual Arts
Media: Painting
According to Paulette Haukaas, who has an emotional disability, "expressing myself through
art became a big part of how I related to the world around me. I was - and am - quiet most of
the time, and my art helps get my message across. It is especially helpful when I need to
show how I feel."Paulette's technique is modeled after the animated character style used
by Japanese animation artists. She studied their styles and picked out specific details such
as the large, sparkling eyes. She uses colored pencils, charcoal, or pastels in her artwork.
VSA Arts Artists Registry Paulette Haukaas

Kreg Lancaster
Afton, WY
Discipline: Visual Arts
Media: Painting
Born with cerebal palsy, Kreg Lancaster has developed a style of his own, working with his
involuntary muscular movements. Working in oils, he has studied with Jeannette Anderson
of Grover, Wyoming. Most of Lancaster's paintings are nature or Western scenes.
VSA Arts Artists Registry Kreg Lancaster

Victor Martinez
Cheyenne, WY
Discipline: Visual Arts
Media: Crafts, Drawing, Jewelry, Media, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Woodcarving
Victor Martinez has had an interest in art since he was a child but it was not until a car
accident left him with traumatic brain injury that he began to seriously pursue his dream
of becoming an artist. He states, "My art gives me a purpose, it fulfills parts of my days,
and I can have a furture with it. My art gives me a purpose to keep going and fulfill my goals
and dreams." Martinez prefers to create artwork in a realistic style, using everyday scenes
of wildlife, nature, and people as his inspiration. He takes photographs, uses models or
images from magazines to find his artistic ideas.
VSA Arts Artists Registry Victor Martinez

Patricia Smith
Sundance, WY
Discipline: Visual Arts
Media: Collage, Crafts, Drawing, Mosaic, Painting, Photography
"I strongly feel that producing art has helped me to overcome my self-consciousness of my
visual impairment. It gives me great joy to view my completed works." Patricia Smith uses
a variety of techniques to create landscapes, animals, and portraits often derived from her
own photographs. She believes in learning from others; she continues to take art classes
to enhance her work and teaches young children at local day care centers. Smith's art has
been exhibited in South Carolina and her home state of Wyoming.
VSA Arts Artists Registry Patricia Smith

Adalou Yonkee
Parkman, WY
Discipline: Visual Arts
Media: Drawing
"Art is communication...for the emotionally troubled and the mentally disabled, the arts have
opened up worlds of communication, relieved tension, expressed chaos, celebrated beauty
and elevated the spirit." Adalou Yonkee's drawings began as light, loose, multiple scribbles
on a page. Now a majority of them can be described as a single large drawing made up of
hundreds of crosshatched lines. Yonkee's drawings express her love of nature, the
environment, and the seasons.
VSA Arts Artists Registry Adalou Yonkee