
February 21, 2025 | 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Artists are often inspired by the abundance of beauty that surrounds them in the natural world. Biophilia is the natural human tendency to connect with nature and other living things. The term comes from Greek and literally translates to “love of life.”
For this exhibit, Barbara Baer brings nature into the built environment. For her 3-dimensional installation art pieces she uses the imagery of plants and animals on structures that are supported by the art gallery itself. Her art installations use counterweight, balance, friction, and tension for a playful take on the natural world. We are excited to share more of Barbara Baer’s work. She created the lighted panels in the Lobby and the large-scale outdoor sculpture above the south entrance off Mulberry St. for our renovation in 2011.
Amelia Furman’s artwork is founded on the quest to find connection between our own stories and how they intersect with the ever-changing stories of the landscapes around us. By painting on a layering of text, photographs, maps and symbols, she shows the story of a place and expresses the transient nature of time.


Barbara Baer (top) and Amelia Furman (bottom)
Artists
Amelia Furman
Amelia Furman began her artist career shortly after receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting, Printmaking, and Illustration from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2003. After her studies, she began showing her work in non-traditional venues and continued to develop her mixed media style through experimentation and involvement in the local artist community outside of the Brandywine River area. She honed her paper collage techniques in storytelling while simultaneously pursuing plein aire painting opportunities and painting landscapes near her home. After a time, her mixed media work became interwoven with her landscape painting into the style she uses today. As her body of work developed, she began working with galleries, participating in festivals and creating larger corporate commissions on the East Coast. In 2013, Amelia and her family moved to Loveland, Colorado where they currently reside. Amelia and her family are avid hikers, bikers, instilling a love of nature and the outdoors to their two sons.
Amelia was awarded the Larimer County Visual Artist of the Year Award in 2018, has received public art commissions, shows in galleries throughout the country and has work in private and corporate collections nationwide. She teaches workshops for children and adults and often utilizes her skills to facilitate collaborative art projects for communities.
Barbara Baer
Most of Barbara Baer’s studio practice has been in the realm of public art: works developed for a specific site and range of emotional intent. She has completed projects in San Francisco, New York, St. Louis, Chicago, Vail, Denver, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. She feels a special tie to Ft. Collins, since creating custom works for Poudre Valley Hospital, Council Tree Library, and Edora Pool/Ice Center. When the Lincoln Center was renovated and expanded in 2011, Barbara designed the wall-mounted lightwork for the main lobby and the lighted, white steel relief sculpture facing Mulberry Street. That same year, she was awarded two Urban Design Awards from the City of Ft. Collins.
She considers herself both an object–maker and an installation artist, intrigued with spatial design and the interaction of materials with light. Her plastic, fabric and metal constructions incorporate rich, translucent color and shifting shadow play to engage and reward perception. Their mood is often playful and curious.
Barbara Baer received a BFA is from Tulane University in New Orleans and MFA in sculpture from the University of Colorado in Boulder. For many she taught graduate courses with Lesley University. She now maintains a studio practice in Denver and serves as an artist volunteer for Spark Gallery, an artist-run collective.
Admission
Gallery Hours
The art gallery is also open for most performances at The Lincoln Center until immediately after intermission.