I grew up in a small town in north-central New Hampshire. Bounced around the country from Maine, to Boston, to Indiana, to New York, to Philly, to Cincinnati... I now live in Northern California. 

EDUCATION 

1990 — BFA, Sculpture
University of Cincinnati, School of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning

1983–1987 — Anthropology and Art Criticism; Bronze Foundry Program
State University of New York at Binghamton, NY

1972–1975 — Foundation Program
New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA

1972–1976 — Apprenticeship with Hugh Gerald Robert “Robin” Binning
Cambridge, MA

Awards & Fellowships

2001 — Paid Internship, Belize Audubon Society
Design and construction of educational exhibit on bird migration

1996 — Special Commendation Award
Alameda County Board of Supervisors, CA

1992 — Merit Award for Sculpture
California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

1989 — Grant
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Brooklyn, NY

1987 — Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
Franklin Mint, Philadelphia, PA

1987 — Special Handling Permit
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions (including Open Studios)

1990–2025 — Annual Spring and/or Fall Open Studios*
(studio locations listed below)

-2019–present — Yampa Path Studio
Fort Bidwell & Fairfax, CA

-2010–2019 — Water Street Studio
Fort Bidwell, CA

-1999–present — Fairfax Studio
Fairfax, CA

-1990–1999 — Ford Street Studio / Boat Yard at Grand Marina
Alameda, CA

~2011 — Birdology: (Solo) Art Works by Brenda Sherburn LaBelle (with book reading)
Riley’s Art Center & Supplies, San Rafael, CA

2001 — Featured Artist, Cashew Festival
Crooked Tree, Belize

2015, 2014, 2013 — Annual California Ceramic Artists Exhibition
Sacramento, CA

2013 — Wall for Peace, International Art for World Peace
India; Istanbul, Turkey

~~~Works of art are a vital part of culture. Like bubbles touching & forming interlocking spheres shades of new colors are illuminated.~~~

"A Quiet Marker: Every Garden Needs A Sculpture"

.....A sculpture placed within a garden introduces an element of discovery, offering definition without dominance. It becomes a quiet marker—something encountered rather than announced—eliciting a sense of the unseen while remaining rooted in the physical world.

Within a pollinator garden, sculpture and nature enter into conversation. The work does not compete with life around it; instead, it participates. The sculpture becomes a place of pause, where perception deepens and presence is felt—where nature, art, and human attention briefly align.

© Sherburn LaBelle, 2020 

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My Writings

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Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions (continued)

1993–1995 — Outsider’s Art: PAIRS Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA

1992–1993 — Frail Elder Center for Alzheimer’s Oakland, CA

1992 — Women’s Art Exhibition Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992 — Sculpture Expo (Merit Award) California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

1988 — Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Wilmington, DE

~1987 — Solo Exhibition Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

1987 — Institute of Contemporary Art College of Philadelphia, PA

1987 — Lawrence / Rosemont Gallery Rosemont, PA

~1987 — Solo Window Exhibition: Chernobyl: The Noble Savage The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

1982 — Festival of Alternatives in Art SUNY Binghamton, NY

Symposia / Exchange

2018 — Marble / Stone Carving Symposium Colorado

Early 2000s — Planet X Studio Exchange-studio space for being there. Gerlach, NV

*NOTE: Since the late 1990s, Sherburn LaBelle has increasingly focused on open studios as a primary form of public engagement.