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Barbara Waterman-Peters received her BFA from Washburn University, her MFA from Kansas State University, taught drawing and painting at both institutions, and has been active in many arts organizations.  Her award-winning work has been shown nationally, internationally, and is in museum, corporate, and private collections, including the Beach Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, the Mulvane Art Museum and the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery at Topeka & Shawnee County Library.  
Current gallery affiliations are Eclectic Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX,  Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS, South Wind Gallery, the Collective Art Gallery, and Beauchamp Gallery, all in Topeka. She was invited to show in both the Kansas Inaugural and the Kansas Masters Exhibitions.  In 2007 her work for the Washburn University Theater was exhibited at the Mulvane Art Museum.  In 2003 she was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contributions to the State of Kansas; in 2005 she was asked to design the governor’s Christmas card.  Waterman-Peters has been nominated twice for a Governor’s Arts Award. In 2008 she was invited to design the image for the Sunflower Music Festival.  She received an invitation to participate in the 2009 Florence, Italy, Biennale and will be featured in the next issue of STUDIO VISIT Magazine. She is also a writer, currently for TOPEKA Magazine.  Also in 2009 she received the Lilla Day Monroe Award from Washburn University Alumni Association and won Best of Show in the KU Plein Air Event sponsored jointly by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and South Wind Gallery.