St. George, UT Author Publishes Book on Creativity

A Creative Life, a new book by Barry William Scharf, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

A Creative Life is filled with the tools and philosophy of the creative process. With a timeless message retentive to all who seek to express themselves creatively, readers can use the tools to develop their skills in a creatively expressive world.

About the Author
Barry William Scharf is a master painter, sculptor, photographer, and professor of art with a history of creating award-winning art and exhibition installations from the late 1960s to the present. He has been making art for over 55 years and has had over 25 public and one-man shows at museums and galleries internationally.

From 1996 to 2014, Barry taught in the Design, Photography, and Animation Departments at the Art Institute of Seattle. He was a semifinalist in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards for 2011 and 12 in the "Innovation in Traditional Media in Education" and a Guru Award Finalist Artistic Award winner 2001 from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

In 1973, he attended East Carolina University, receiving a BFA, then attended Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, where he won the prestigious Hancock Park Art Award for excellence in painting. Barry graduated from Otis Art Institute with an M.F.A. in 1975.

In 1980, Scharf was chosen for a federally funded C.E.T.A. project to use artists in community renewal projects. As part of a group of 12 artists, they created Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. LACE became a significant force in revitalizing the inner city of Los Angeles by providing a forum to bring artists downtown into the unoccupied buildings. LACE created low-rent studios of a size suitable for serious artists. Within the first year, this effort infused the L.A. art scene to such an extent that it resulted in an influx of architects and other professionals, and the gallery is still open today.

Barry William Scharf is an artist whose work centers on expressing the spiritual within nature and life. He paints his visions through both abstract imagery and a poetic narrative reality. This way, the viewer is encouraged to experience feelings as visual imagery, sound as color, and prayer as composition.

In 2015, his photo work was included in the International Exposure Awards, which was shown in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

In 2019-2020, his work was honored with a career retrospective at the Utah Tech Museum in St. George, Utah. This one-man exhibition spanned over 50 years of his artworks.
A Creative Life is a 168-page paperback with a retail price of $54.00 (hardcover $69.00, eBook $49.00). The ISBN is 9798889254812. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For members of the press, to request a review copy or author interview, please visit https://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/pages/media-requests, or to buy the book, visit our online bookstore at https://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/products/a-creative-life