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Sherburn Labelle Brenda Sherburn Labelle, known professionally as Sherburn Labelle, is an American sculptor, conceptual artist, poet and writer known for creating site-specific sculpture and land art for urban and natural settings. Labelle’s work is interested in nurturing an artistic experience why she often integrates impulses of light and textural surfaces in her work to reconnect people to the core of art, nature and history. She lives and works in California.

Sherburn Labelle Sherburn Labelle at her open studio Born	New Hampshire, New York Nationality	American Education	New England School of Art & Design, Boston; University of Cincinnati (1990)

Known for	Sculpture; Drawing; Writing and Poetry; Hummingbirds Rescue

Awards	Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award (1989); Merit Award by California State Fair (1992);

Belize Audobon Society (2001)

Early Life & Education Labelle was born in New Hampshire, New York. Her enthusiasm for conceptual art, environmental art as well as landscape drawings started when she was very young. She first got introduced to art as a high school student and in the early 1970's, she apprenticed with English sculptor and instructor, Robin Binning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Binning eventually became her mentor in sculpture.

She was part of a group of students selected for the 1982 Festival of Alternatives in Art at the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton, a school where she later enrolled for a Foundry program.

She briefly studied fine arts and design at the New England School of Art & Design, Boston, Massachusetts and earned a Bachelor’s in fine art at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1990. Immediately after her studies, she ran 2 open studios in Alameda and Fairfax, California, where she organized contemporary open art exhibitions. Both studios still do open exhibits till date.

Art Work Labelle’s sculptures and drawings have been exhibited in several group shows in various parts of the world - The Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. She calls her style of art as the “invisible bubble” which is “what I call the state of mind that you experience when viewing a work of Art.”

As a lover of birds, her art works are mostly about Hummingbirds. Labelle has been quoted as saying “I spent over a decade raising orphaned baby hummingbirds here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now I’m retired, I would like to share how hummingbirds can guide us to appreciate nature in astonishing ways.” The material she uses in her sculptures and paintings often include stone, bronze and clay.

Perception of Art Artistic experience plays a crucial role in her art why her works usually come with impulses of light and textural surfaces that can let people become connected when viewing a work of art. Labelle believes art to be a vital part of culture and describes it as something which “can create new paradigms that can help all of us make better choices in our lives.” She says “Our existing cultural threads that help us through unfamiliar experiences are so frayed in our society that knowledge comes to a dead end rather than be woven into a new layer of experience.”

Only art can mend these frayed cultural threads. She strives to give voice to this process of Arts. In 2001, she founded Save World Draw, a platform about preserving cultural integrity and facilitating cultural sensitivity for art as a vital and living thing.

Poetry and Writing She established an online page; Potentials of Art, where various creative writers can display their marvelous perspective of art, particularly writing and poetry.

Personal Life Labelle is an ardent lover of birds. She terms Hummingbirds as a huge source of inspiration for her art works. She worked with British artist, Robin Binning, in the 1970's as an apprentice. Binning played a huge role in her becoming a professional sculptor and artist. Her good friend, Sy Montgomery, wrote a book "Birdology" about birds and a whole chapter is dedicated to Labelle and her work with hummingbirds. Labelle is the coordinator and facilitator of Save World Draw, an organization that strives to touch the hearts & minds of people by facilitating art to inspire positive change and to preserve cultural integrity.

Exhibition Labelle’s first solo show of sculpting and drawing was held at the Alternatives Places for Art, Binghamton, New York in 1987, themed; Art from The Shadows. Her other art works include the following;

Image	Dates	Title	Location 1982	Festival of Alternatives in Art	SUNY-Binghamton, NY 1987	Herland III, Women’s Art	Oswego Art Guild, NY 1987	Spring through Summer, Featuring Brenda Sherburn-Zimmer (Labelle)	Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York 1987	Fall Exhibit	Philadelphian Museum of Art, Sale’s Gallery

1987	Annual Group Show. Clay Figure piece! Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 1987	American (BAD) Dream: Artists views on poverty	Lawrence/Rosemont Gallery, Rosemont, PA

1987	Abstract Art, City Hall	Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Philadelphia, PA.

1987	Contemporary Arts	Delaware Center For The Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

1988	Chernobyl: Clay Figures. Clay Studio. Window Displays, Philadelphia, Pa: 1990-present	Annual Open Studio	Alameda, CA; Fairfax, CA 1989	Ceramic Sculpture (featuring drawing and design)	Plymouth State College, New Hampshire.

1990	BFA Show, 840 Gallery	DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. 1992	Sculpture Expo (Merit Award)	California State Fair, Sacramento, CA. 1992	Women’s Art Exhibit	The Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1992-93	Fund raiser	Frail Elder Center For Alzheimer’s, Oakland, CA.

1993-95	PAIRS, Teachers Annual	Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA.

2001-present	Save World Draw	Alameda, CA; Fairfax, CA 2014-2018	Exhibition	Large-scale Sculpture Garden, Fort Bidwell, CA

2014	Paiute Elder’s Heritage Celebration	Northern California, CA 2018	A Sculpture Park	Surprise Valley, CA Awards 1987 One-Year Artist In Resident Fellowship. Sponsored by the Franklin Mint through the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 1987 Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Special Handling Permit awarded to directly work from Rodin’s clay maquettes and bronzes on site. Permission to copy by drawings and modeling small clay pieces. Permission to enter one hour before museum opens, work through morning hours. 1989 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Brooklyn, NY. Money For Women Artists: Sculpture & Drawing 1992 Merit Award, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA 1996 Special Commendation Award for Work & Instruction for the Cambodian Community. Alameda Board of Supervisors. Oakland, CA 2001 Belize Audubon Society. Belize, Central America. Awarded Internship to design and build an education exhibit about bird migration at Crooked Tree Bird Sanuary. Reviews and Publications 2007 / Article, Froglog Newsletter, Saving The World One Drawing At A Time, http://www.amphibians.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Froglog84.pdf 2009 / Article, Daraja Academy, Kenya. “The Highlight of the Week” by Director Jason Doherty 2012 / Book, Selected Poetry English, Urdu, Persian & Punjabi by Tahir Khan Arzani طاہر خان ارضانی / Book design & Introduction by Brenda Sherburn LaBelle 2013 / Book, Owl Always Be Waiting, Poetry by Brenda Sherburn LaBelle 2011 / Book, Birdology by Sy Montgomery, (one chapter about Brenda’s work with hummingbirds) Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1416569848 2015/ June / Article, Handle With Care, from Reader’s Digest See also Environmental art Environmental sculpture Save World Draw Land art Notes References Further information External links