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Barbara Penn: “Bringing the Mind Home” Barbara Penn is a local artist who focuses on painting and drawing projects. She was a featured artist at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in October, and presented her work to a group of interested scholars. The project presented was entitled “Bringing the Mind Home”, which Barbara had been at work on for the past three years. The artwork shown displayed a variety of emotions that Penn had been going through. Penn explained how she felt that painting brings a person to the “now” in life, which is so important as we often forget the “now” and instead focus too much on the future. Art allows time for a person to slow down and think. An example that she used is when you are grieving or are ill, society expects you to move forward and return to normal as quickly as possible, but painting gives you as much time as you need. The media that Penn used for her pieces of work was acrylic paint on large tarps. Some of the art work focused on politics of current discussion, others were about love,