Civitellian Bert Yarborough (CRF 2018) recently received a 2023 grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. These awards recognize the talents of individuals around the world who have dedicated long careers to making art. The grants hope to alleviate financial burdens on those artists so they can devote more of their time and energies to creative endeavors.

“My current work presents a merging of many personal, significant visual experiences and places,” Bert tells us. “I continue to employ and expand the mark-making language honed through over 40 years of working in the landscape of Provincetown, an engagement with ritual and symbolic iconography absorbed in Nigeria, and the creation of forms incorporating aspects of the Medieval geological depictions of landscapes and mountain formations.” Learn more here.

Image: Offering, 2022
Acrylic, Flashe, gouache, ink, and reactive dyes on grommeted canvas
72 x 60 inches