Personal Life
For a time, Barry dated public-radio personality Ira Glass, who moved to Chicago in 1989 to be with her.
Barry is married to Kevin Kawula, a prairie restoration expert. They met each other while she was an artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation and he was land manager of the Lake Forest Open Lands project in Lake Forest, Illinois. They live on a farm near Footville, Wisconsin.
In 1994, Barry suffered a near-fatal case of dengue fever.
She is a vegetarian and says she came to it slowly.
More recently, she has become an outspoken critic of wind power.
On 18 January 2012, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute and Department of Art announced that Barry will be artist in residence for the spring term. She will teach a class titled "What It Is: Manually Shifting the Image." and a schedule of four public lectures with special guests has been announced.
From September 24-28 2012, Lynda Barry is the artist in residence at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
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