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Founder, Director at The Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery and Co-founder at The Griffin Art Center.
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Walter Bartman, Director and Founder of the Yellow Barn, has taught art in the Bethesda, Maryland area for over thirty years. Specializing in landscape and figure painting, he is known as one of Maryland's finest painting teachers. He is listed in the Art and Artist Files in the Hirshhorn Museum and Scupture Garden Library Collections.
O. Kenneth Hankins was born in Bluefield, WV in 1944. He moved to Baltimore, MD with his mother in 1950 when she came to work at Martins Airport. Ken attended Baltimore County Public Schools and Frostburg State College. He graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1966. He taught art in Baltimore and Carroll Counties; in 1970 he met his future wife at Hereford High School. After they married in 1971, they moved to Almond, NY where Ken attend Alfred University and his wife taught English at Alfred-Almond Central School.