(1954 to 1959) and Ian James, 1962. After her Chatham College studies she also studied art at Provincetown Workshop (Leo Manso, Victor Candell, summer 1964) and New York University (Leo Manso, fall 1964, spring 1965). After completing her PhD she studied at the New School for Social Research (Leo Manso, early 1980s); with the Art Students League (Leo Manso, Rudolf Baranik, 1981-1983); and at the Provincetown Art Association Museum School (Selena Trieff, 1983). In the final decade of her life, Karp was making photography, archiving ancestral photos, and writing about family photography, self-portraiture, portraiture and other kinds of photography. Karp's photographs, like her painting, are intimate explorations of the self and relationships. She is said to have loved the Arbus quote: "A photo is a secret about a secret." The late musician, filmmaker, and photographer Jon Sholle praised the "vision" and "concept" of Karp's photographs. Artist, musician, and photographer Joe Morris praised Karp's great regard for the subjects in her photos, seeing "beauty in things that are ignored by most people." Activism on Karp's behalf In Spring 2008, Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts students conducted peaceful protests, including a conversation with faculty at a Lang College faculty meeting and at other meetings with faculty, administrators, and students; and demonstrating in the college's courtyard and student publications in the Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts paper, "New School Free Press", sometimes also known as IMPRINT. Students created a public support group on Facebook that they titled Lang Needs Barrie!!! where they put their writings and other materials related to the case. This public support group still existed as of 2019. In an article by Kevin Dugan in the April 1, 2008 issue of the New School Free Press, a Lang senior, Jamila Thompson, was quoted as saying, "If it can happen to Barrie, it can happen to anybody....our voices are not valued." According to then-Lang student Anna Bean, in an opinion piece published in the April 15, 2008, New School Free Press, stated that 120 students, faculty, and alumni of Lang have signed the petition urging the administration to reconsider the decision" to not renew Karp's contract. In an April 29, 2008 letter to the editor in the New School Free Press, Lang alumna Michelle Salerno described Karp as "the finest professor I ever had" and lauded Karp's "breadth of knowledge on feminism, critical race studies,