2016 Stranger Genius Award Nominee...

2016 Stranger Genius Award Nominee Barbara Earl Thomasby Jen GravesDrawer, painter, and sculptor Barbara Earl Thomas was the first artist we told this year that she'd been nominated for a Stranger Genius Award. Here's her reaction, photographed outside her studio in Columbia City.When we talked to her by phone before the shoot, she said, "My shit ain't over!"She has been making work in Seattle for a long time. As a student many years ago at the University of Washington, she studied with Jacob La