Barbara Neijna
{{short description|American sculptor}}
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| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Barbara Neijna Martinez (born 1937) is an American artist known for her sculpture and public art works.
Neijna holds a BFA degree from Syracuse University, New York.{{cite web |last1=Dunlap |first1=Anne |title=Artist comes full circle with DeLand exhibition |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/os-et-new-exhibit-deland-museum-art-20181030-story.html |website=orlandosentinel.com}} Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{cite web |title=Barbara Neijna {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/barbara-neijna-3508 |website=americanart.si.edu}} She has lived in South Florida since 1962 and her work is included in the collection of Pérez Art Museum Miami.{{cite web |last1=BEACON |first1=SPECIAL TO THE |title=Artist Barbara Neijna still reaching for infinity |url=https://www.beacononlinenews.com/arts_and_entertainment/artist-barbara-neijna-still-reaching-for-infinity/article_8ca08f00-0f71-11e9-a894-5fd2918fef1a.html |website=The West Volusia Beacon |language=en}}
Public art
- America, America, Tampa Riverwalk, 1977. Originally installed at the Hillsborough County Public Library.{{cite web |last1=Berrojo |first1=Angelica |title=America, America by Barbara Neijna |url=https://tampahistorical.org/items/show/51 |website=Tampa Historical |language=en}}
- Red Sea Road City of Miami Beach. Destroyed by hurricane.{{cite web |title=COMMISSION MEMORANDUM |url=https://docmgmt.miamibeachfl.gov/WebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=192451 |website=docmgmt.miamibeachfl.gov}}
- Right Turn on White, Strom Thurmond Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 1979{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Richard |title=Text and Image: Art and the Performance of Memory |date=28 July 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-48654-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJsuDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Right+Turn+on+White%22+barbara+neijna&pg=PT384 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Right Turn on White |url=https://www.onecolumbiasc.com/public-art/right-turn-on-white-2/ |website=One Columbia}}{{cite book |last1=Thalacker |first1=Donald W. |title=The Place of Art in the World of Architecture |year=1980 |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |isbn=978-0-8352-1113-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_OhPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Right+Turn+on+White%22+barbara+neijna |language=en}}
- Elements for Passage at Dawn, Department of Education building, Tallahassee, Florida. 1986.{{cite web |title=Elements for Passage at Dawn |url=https://www.tallahasseearts.org/public-art/elements-for-passage-at-dawn/ |website=Tallahassee Arts Guide}}
- Total Environment, Philadelphia, 1986{{cite web |title=Total Environment |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/total-environment/ |website=Association for Public Art}}
- Foreverglades, Miami International Airport, South terminal expansion, 2007.{{cite web |title=CultureNOW - Foreverglades: Barbara Neijna, Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs |url=https://www.culturenow.org/index.php?page=entry&permalink=08514 |website=www.culturenow.org}}
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