Barbara Tisserat (1951–2017) was an American artist and lithographer born in Denver, Colorado. She taught lithography at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts. She was a member of One/Off Printmakers and also taught at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Robinson House lithography workshop with Marilyn Bevilacqua. She was active with the Richmond Printmaking Workshop and served on the Advisory Board of Studio Two-Three in Richmond, Virginia. She was a member of the Summer 2007 graphics faculty at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She was a visiting artist and lecturer in the Lyceum program at Emory and Henry College.
Barbara Tisserat earned a BFA with an emphasis in printmaking and graphic design from Colorado State University and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She attended technical workshops at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, California, the Richmond Printmaking Workshop, and Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Tisserat’s prints have been included in group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She had solo exhibitions at the Genkan Gallery in Tokyo, Japan; Galeria ICPNA Miraflores in Lima, Peru; Hunt Gallery at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia; and Reynolds Gallery in Richmond. She was one of twelve artists selected for the exhibition Un/Common Ground, Virginia Artists 1988 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She participated in ThinkSmall at Artspace in Richmond, Virginia and in Clark Whittington's Art-o-Mat.