Barbara Lane Tharas

Barbara Lane Tharas (they/them) is an artist living and working in Emporia, Kansas. Tharas received their Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in 2016 and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Kansas. They have exhibited nationally over the last eight years, including eight solo exhibitions and numerous juried exhibitions.

Tharas creates work that is motivated through sequences such as comics, animation, and printmaking. They use printmaking and comicing as a way to create work that utilizes humor to critique anti-fat bias, stigmas of mental illness, and conventional beauty standards, as well as celebrating queerness and their Mexican Heritage.

Laughter is their most significant motivation when creating art. Their mission is drawing and sharing what they draw with as many folx as possible.