Bert Yarborough

Bert Yarborough

Biography

Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture from Clemson University and an MA and MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa. He held the Sonia C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair in the Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, where he also served as the Director of the William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 and Marian Graves Mugar Art Galleries and taught Drawing and Painting. 

A former two-year Resident Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, he served as Visual Arts Program Coordinator for four years and is now serving as Chairman of the Visual Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees. 

He has received two NH State Arts Council Grants in Painting, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, a Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, also in Sculpture, and a Visual Arts Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy. 

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of numerous institutions including the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH, Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, NH, the Boston Public Library and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY.

He currently resides in Truro, MA.