The Kirkland Museum honors the career of Barbara Locketz (1927–2017) with a retrospective exhibition from March 22 to July 14, 2019. Her artworks include oil paintings, prints, paper and metal collage, metal and acrylic sculpture, jewelry, and textiles. She was a student of Vance Kirkland while completing her MA at the University of Denver and taught there from 1964 to 1971. She exhibited her work throughout Colorado and the Southwest, New York, and Mexico.