Curriculum Vitae

Publication: The Cambridge Chronicle, weekly newspaper of Cambridge, MA; BCR Playing Card Deck (2019), Boston Comics Roundtable; Colonial Comics Vol. II: New England, 1750—1775 (2017), Chicago Review Press; Boundless (2016), Boston Comics Roundtable/Robot Camp; Colonial Comics: New England, 1620—1750 (2014), Chicago Review Press; SubCultures, (2014), Ninth Art Press; Hellbound (2010), Hellbound II (2011) (see creator interview here), and Hellbound V (2014), River Bird Comics; The Greatest of All Time Comics Anthology (2012), Ninth Art Press; American Communal Societies Quarterly Vol. 6, no. 2 (April 2012); Polite Company Magazine, an online humor journal of sex, politics, and religion; Nix Comics Quarterly #3 (2011), Nix Comics; Inbound 5: The Food Issue (2010), Boston Comics Roundtable; The Commons, monthly alternative newspaper of Brattleboro, VT, and Windham County; The Recorder, daily newspaper of Greenfield, MA, Franklin County, and North Quabbin; The Friends of Lulu Girls' Guide to Guys' Stuff; Fortean Times; Funny Times; Journal of Irreproducible Results; Awakening Comics publications: Awakening Comics 1999, The Origin of Sparky, and Sparky in Love; Shattered Wig Poetry Review; Gauntlet: Exploring the Limits of Free Expression #3 (incorrectly billed on their credits list as B.J. Barnes); 1993 Women's Glib Calendar; Lewis Carroll Epstein's Thinking Physics, Second Edition (supplementary illustrations)

Art/Design Clients: Thomsen and Burke LLP; The Sillyverse; Monadnock Media; Collective Copies; New England Learning Center for Women in Transition; Everything in the Universe; Food Bank of Western Massachusetts

Awards: 2017: Coaster Design Winner (Top 4 in Audience Voting), 2017 Coaster Show at Lamplighter Brewing Co., for "Happy Customers"; 2017: Honorable Mention, "White|Black|Monochrome" at South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA; for "The Plague (Page 3 of 7)". Exhibition juried by Beth Urdang of Beth Urdang Gallery; 2009: 2nd Place winner, Illustration/Daily Class, New England Newspaper and Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, for "Old Deerfield Grammar School", published in The Recorder 20 September 2008; 2007: Third Prize Winner (Audience Voting), Sevincer Animation Festival, for Leatherwing Bat; 2007: Judges' Choice Award for Wurst Pun, Arisia Science Fiction Convention Art Show, for "A Tern for the Wurst"; 2004: Category Award Winner: First Film, Open Genre Short, Thunderbird International Film Festival, for Leatherwing Bat

Grants and Residencies: 23 January – 4 February 2017: Artists in Action, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, Solomons, MD; 29 February – 28 March 2012: Artist's Residency, NOASS Art Centre, Rīga, Latvia; 10–23 October 2009: Painting Residency with fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

Group Exhibitions: Highlights: 25 January – 19 February 2022: Forms of Resistance juried exhibition at Cambridge College's Town Common Gallery, Charlestown, MA; 6–29 November 2020: Speak UP! juried exhibition at Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA; 16 September 2018 – 13 January 2019: New England Watercolor Society's 2018 Biennial North American Open Juried Exhibition at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; 17 April – 28 May 2017: "White|Black|Monochrome" national juried exhibition at South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA; 7 October 2016 – 29 January 2017: Fur, Feathers & Fins: Our Faithful Pets, national juried exhibition at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD; 1 September – 11 December 2015: Seeing Stories: Traversing the Graphic Narrative, invitational exhibition at Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; 19 June – 23 August 2015: Heroes & Villains: Exploring Archetypes Through Art, national juried exhibition at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD; 4 December 2014 – 16 January 2015: The Cambridge Art Association Presents: Platinum, juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA; 31 May – 5 July 2012: The Cambridge Art Association 11th National Prize Show, national juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA; 3–24 February 2012: "Scratching the Surface", juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association's Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA; 28 January – 4 February 2011: "Good vs. Evil! Superhero vs. Villain Smackdown", juried exhibition at Space 242, formerly of Boston, MA; 30 April – 21 May 2010: "Get Your Freak On! Celebrating Circus Folk, Carnies & Sideshow Freaks", juried exhibition at Space 242, formerly of Boston, MA; 29 January – 13 March 2010: "I...You...We...ROBOT: A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek!", juried exhibition at Space 242, formerly of Boston, MA; September – November 2006: 7th Annual Great River Exhibition: "Homage to the Seasons", benefit for Pioneer Valley Institute, at Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA; 2006–2008: "Critical Views" II, III, and IV, annual juried exhibition of political art at Red Sun Press held in conjunction with Jamaica Plain Open Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA

Solo Exhibitions: April 2010: Out Of The Blue Gallery presents "Laughing To Keep From Crying: The Political Cartoons of E. J. Barnes", Upstairs at The Middle East Restaurant, Cambridge, MA; July 2009: "Around the Neighborhood": 2007—2009 original editorial cartoons published in The Recorder and The Commons, at Green Fields Market, Greenfield, MA; January — March 2007: "Funny Pictures, Serious Business II": 2006—2007 original editorial cartoons for The Recorder, Sunderland Public Library, Sunderland, MA; December 2006: "Odd Ducks: Avian Art for Cartoons, Comic Books, and Animation": watercolor and gouache paintings made for Birds of the Baltic, Leatherwing Bat, and other works, Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, MA; September — October 2006: Untitled solo show of original topical cartoon art, including editorial cartoons that have appeared in The Recorder, at Green Fields Market, Greenfield, MA; May — June 2006: "Funny Pictures, Serious Business": 2005—2006 original editorial cartoons for The Recorder, Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA; November 2004: A Taste of Art presents "Circles of Color": Syncretic mandalas painted in gouache, Amherst Crepes, Amherst, MA

Juried Art Festivals: 2010–present: Cambridge Arts Open Studios; 2009–2014: Cambridge Center for Adult Education Holly Fair; 2008: Pittsfield Art Show, Pittsfield, MA; 2007–2008: Great Falls Art Fest, benefit for the Brick House Community Resource Center, Turners Falls (Montague), MA; 2006–2007: Northfield Summer Arts Festival at Green Trees Gallery, Northfield, MA; 2005–2006: University of Massachusetts Holiday Craft Fair, sponsored by the UMass Student Union Craft Center, Amherst, MA; 2004–2005: ArtShow Amherst Fine Art Street Galleries, Amherst, MA

Curatorial Experience: 10–24 April 2024: "Outside the Box", exhibit of Boston Comics Roundtable artists, co-curated with Tony Lathrop, Dan Mazur, and J. L. Bell; at Joy Cochran Gallery at the The Footlight Club, Jamaica Plain, MA; September 2020 – present: "Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons", online exhibit of Boston Comics Roundtable artists, co-curated with J. L. Bell and Dan Mazur, featuring writing by J. L. Bell; at Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA; 23 February – 22 April 2012: "Comics and Society: Observations of Boston Comic and Cartoon Artists", featuring art of the Boston Comics Roundtable, at Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, MA; 29 June – 31 July 2009: "Five Valley Cartoonists", at Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, MA; 1 April – 29 May 2008: "Accounts of Events: Narrative Works by Connecticut Valley Artists", at Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA

Film Festivals: Leatherwing Bat (animated, color, 3 minutes, 2001)

Teaching Experience: 2010–2015: Introduction to Cartooning, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA; Spring–Fall 2014: Comics and Graphic Storytelling, Amigos Cambridgeport Community School After School Program, Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, MA; Summer 2008: Basic Cartooning, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Continuing and Professional Education Program, Amherst, MA; Spring 2008: Editorial Cartooning, Greenfield Community College, Community Education Program (teen to adult), Greenfield, MA; Summer 2007: Editorial Cartooning, Sunderland Public Library, Sunderland, MA; Spring 2007 – Spring 2008: Basic Cartooning, Greenfield Community College, Community Education Program (teen to adult), Greenfield, MA; Winter 2007: Cartooning, A.C.E. of Clubs (After Class Experience), Mohawk Trail Regional High and Middle Schools, Buckland, MA

Media Coverage: Highlights: 29 June 2024: For the Love of History podcast: Interview: "The Count Con-Man" on YouTube and Spotify; 14 November 2020: Cambridge Community Television (CCTV): Virtual CAOS (Cambridge Artists Open Studios): Nancy Hart, E. J. Barnes, Elizabeth Menges, and Kitt White; 20 October 2019: Comic Book Convo W/Michele: Jaime Hernandez, Diane Noomin, and E. J. Barnes at MICE; 11 December 2017: Citywide Blackout: Blackout Bootleg: MICE; 3 December 2015: Cambridge Community Television (CCTV): The Drawing Board - Episode 3; 22 April 2006: Amerikos Lietuvis, The Lithuanian-American Weekly (Rytų Pakrantė [Eastern Edition]): Interview by Laurynas Misevičius, translated and edited by Eugenija Misevičius, "Rumunų kilmės karikatūristė susidomėjo Baltijos šalimis ir jų... paukščiais," (in Lithuanian; no longer available on the Amerikos Lietuvis site)

Reviews: Ex Libris Universum, the blog of the Neils Bohr Library and Archives at American Institute of Physics, featuring "Women's History Month Graphic Novel and Picture Book Recommendations": Caroline's Catalog; Solrad, The Online Literary Magazine for Comics: Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons, online exhibit at Massachusetts Historical Society, curated by E. J. Barnes, J. L. Bell, and Dan Mazur, with writing by J. L. Bell; Comics in the Classroom: Colonial Comics: New England, 1620-1750, highlighting "Thomas Morton, Merry Mount's Lord of Misrule"; Dig Boston: Hellbound V: End of Comics, highlighting "Consummation"; New York Times/Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting: Caroline's Catalog; Comic A Day: Caroline's Catalog; We Got Issues: A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed; Optical Sloth: Caroline's Catalog, Tales of the Ling Master #1, #2, and #3; Arithmetic on the Frontier; and Birds of the Baltic; Lituanus: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences: Birds of the Baltic

Professional Societies: Boston Comics Roundtable; Cambridge Art Association; New England Watercolor Society (Board )

Education: 1992–2009: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Certificate in Illustration received December 2009.; March 2000: Seminar with Edward R. Tufte: "Presenting Data and Information." (Visual design for information display and communication); 1982: California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), Oakland, CA; 1976–1980: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Concentration: Chemistry. Assistant in laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach. A.B. received June 1980.