Interested in sacred and prehistoric art, abstract painter Patricia Adams has traveled widely in pursuit of such studies to Burma, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Indonesia, Thailand and Malta. Since 1964, Adams has taught painting in Vermont at Bennington College, and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1971-1972, 1983, and from 1990 on. Her primary home has been Bennington, Vermont.

She has served as visiting artist and critic and taught seminars at the graduate level at Queens College, New York City, in 1972; University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1976; the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, both in 1978; Columbia University, New York City, 1979; Kent State University, Ohio,...