Barbara Diane Barry is a freelance artist and art teacher in New York City. Under the educational outreach program at Symphony Space, she teaches in public school art residencies throughout the five boroughs and gives tours in the city's finest museums. She is also the creator of "Art for Self-Discovery," a studio art program for adults and children devoted to nurturing the creator inside. Her unique art programs have been used by such clients as Lucent Technologies, Barnes & Noble, The NY Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development, and the Center for the Arts Education in New York. She lives in New York.