Discipline: Visual Art

Rhoda Sherbell

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Westbury, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
Rhoda Sherbell is a contemporary American sculptor, consultant, and teacher whose work is displayed in prominent institutions and has won many awards. In 1960, Sherbell was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters alongside Philip Roth and Norman Mailer. In 2013, the National Association of Women Artists named Sherbell Artist of the Year, an award previously bestowed upon such luminaries of the art world as Mary Cassatt and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. In 2016, she was listed as a faculty member of the Portrait Society of America. She has won awards at the National Sculpture Society; the President’s Award at National Arts Club; is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Grant; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant; Allied Artists Award; Medal of Honor, Audubon Artists; and several awards at the National Academy.

Studios

Mixter

Rhoda Sherbell worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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