Barbara Schreiber

Hi friends,

Meet Barbara. We met because of the #WeLoveCLT collaboration with HappeningsCLT. She visited @809 to check out the latest artist Anna Kenar so I asked her to sit down and answer five or so questions for “Have You Met?”. She looked nervous… like a what the heck am I getting into nervous look. How’d it go? It was awesome. I do this to learn. I truly believe in human interaction and conversation as the best form of education. Full disclosure. I had to Google “Dysthymic”, “Beatnik” and “affect” as a noun. I’m smarter now. I also love her passion for the Charlotte arts community. We need more advocates like her.

Thanks Barbara for being open to something different. I learned so much in such a short amount of time.

Also, check out the Charlotte Art Crush article HappeningsCLT did on her here. It’s awesome.

What is your passion?

My passion is creativity and intensity and that can apply to pretty much any endeavor.

What is your greatest indulgence?

My garden. I garden for wildlife. I garden for birds. That’s my obsession.

What frustrates you?

A bunch of things. Insincerity, condescension, people telling when they should be asking.

Tell me about your parents and how they defined who you are.

My parents were sort of stealth beatniks. My mom is still around. They dodged conventionality but weren’t necessarily stylish about what they then went on to. They were eclectic, hilarious… I’ve never had so much fun as I did when we would go to salvage stores at Baltimore harbor and watch them open up a moldy crate of soap or when my dad was selling Christmas trees for the Optimist club. My sister and I were all jewish so we’d spend wonderful nights on the tree lot, warming our hands over a fire in an oil drum and just loving it. It was a very open minded, low key way of growing up.

How do you think people would describe you?

{laughs} I think people would describe me as cheerier and happier than I actually am. Cause I’m a dysthymic person with a cheery affect.

Corley wants to know if you have to sing a song for your supper what song would it be and why?

Ripple from the Grateful Dead.

Katie wants to know what the first thing that went through your head today was?

Where’s the coffee…

You can find Barbara writing about the arts for the Charlotte Observer or check out her own artistic endeavors here.