Barbara Price Davis

Barbara Price Davis, worked for ten years as the Executive Director of YouthCAN!, a non-profit community arts organization that provided empowering art education programs for all. Barbara’s background as a social psychologist and artist led the organization to being nationally recognized. At the 2006 Breaking Down the Walls Conference at Rutgers University, Barbara was awarded the “Arts in Prevention Achievement Award” and in 2007, YouthCAN! was named a “Model Arts as Prevention” organization by the National Initiative for Arts as Prevention. Barbara was also a Diversity and Inclusion Community Trainer for Human EQ of Northwest Arkansas for seven years. She successfully facilitated and led numerous diversity education workshops for youth, educators, corporations, students, and adults. Additionally, in collaboration with Human EQ, NWA, Barbara has co-written a diversity and art curriculum called “From Barriers to Bridges”. In March 2009, Delta Kappa Gamma, an international association for women in education recognized Barbara Price Davis as the 2009 Outstanding Arts Educator for Arkansas. Today, Barbara works leading transformational arts programs with youth in a substance abuse treatment facility and with adults suffering from severe mental illness. She also leads transformational arts workshops and retreats for women in transition and for cancer survivors. Home for Barbara is a house on Beaver Lake in Springdale, AR where she spends two days each week pursuing her own visual art in her private lake-view studio.