What is it like to create sculpture? It is akin to the process you go through when you write a thoughtful essay, when you cook a good meal for those you care about, or when you guide a child's understanding of nature on a walk through the woods.  First a feeling comes from within about what to say or do. Then a sense of its purpose drives the plan and design.  Then comes the doing and through the doing the spirit and beauty evolve.  For me the act of creating sculpture is an act of love.  It is a sharing of something deeply personal from one human being to another, sharing something deeply spiritual and beautiful.

My career as a professional sculptor was launched when my college sculpture professor told me, "You must go to Italy if you are going to create sculpture." I graduated from Brandeis University, magna cum laude, with honors in sculpture and voted the most promising student in sculpture. Then I took myself to Carrara Italy to learn to carve from the masters.  I spent three months there and when I ran out of money I returned home. I managed to have my first one-person show that spring and sold just one piece.  During my twenties I alternated between living in New York City to exhibit my work and living in rural Maine.  After being a "poor starving" artist for seven years, I went back to school to get an M Ed in 1977 with the hope of teaching art. When that did not materialize I went and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and later became involved in the startup of the Internet in New England.  Over the years I have built a second career as an educational researcher and am an Assistant Research Professor at Boston College. Now with my dual career,  I travel almost every year to Italy to carve or cast in Pietrasanta (which means Holy Stone), the same town where Michelangelo carved in the Renaissance.

Starting with my earliest sculptures, I wanted to capture the elegance, beauty and permanence inherent in stone.The painter, Mitchell Siporin captured the spirit of my work with the following words he wrote for my first exhibition brochure,  "the liquid, flowing forms?have been endowed with a dignified energy, dynamically serene, self-contained and communicative."

A native of Lexington, Massachusetts, Zibit studied with Peter Grippe at Brandeis and met reknown artists such as Ipousteguy and Lipchitz in Italy. She has participated in workshops with B. Amore and Philip Pavia, She is a Board member of the New England Sculptors Association and gives talks on the art of marble carving in Italy for the Beford Museum of Art, Roxbury Latin School, Western Oregon Unversity, Danvers Sculpture exhibitions. She has received awards and has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout New England,, and her work is held private collections in Maine, Massachusetts, New YorK, and Oregon.