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Barbara Johns

Barbara Johns , PhD, is an art historian and curator, whose work in recent years has focused on Issei artists in Seattle. She is the former chief curator of the Tacoma Art Museum, and began her museum career at the Seattle Art Museum, where she was introduced to the artists’ early work.