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Bobbi Gibb is an exciting contemporary artist who creates bronze sculptures of the human form in action and portrait busts; vividly colored murals; and subtle, impressionistic landscapes, which reflect her deep love of both humanity and nature. Her works are found at the National Art Museum of Sport in Indianapolis and in private collections. She has exhibited at the prestigious Geraci Gallery and the Rockport Art Association, where she has won the Manship Prize for excellence. She attended the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has benefited from the teaching of Richard Gibney, Richard Reccia, and Walker Hancock.
She is a three-time winner of the Boston Marathon Women’s Division in the pre-sanctioned era, 1966, 1967 and 1968. She was the first woman ever to run and complete the Boston Marathon in 1966 at a time when it was believed that women were not physically able to run marathon distances and were not allowed to complete in events longer than one and a half miles.
Her feat disproved widely held beliefs about women and was a pivotal event in triggering the second wave of the women’s movement and in changing the consciousness about women’s capabilities. Her sculpture reflects her love of sports and celebrates the human body in motion.
Germain Glidden, the founder of the National Art Museum of Sport, says of her work, “She captures the human spirit in bronze.”
She is an author of a book, Wind in the Fire, available on Amazon, which recounts her adventures and philosophical musing in the two years from 1964 to 1966 when she trained for and ran the marathon.
She has also worked as an attorney in intellectual property law, and as a neuroscience affiliate with Jerry Lettvin at MIT and currently with Dr. Robert H. Brown at the Cecil B. Day Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Motivated by her love of nature and humanity, she seeks to create a more peaceful, harmonious, loving world that embraces a sustainable future.
Having produced commissioned art for many decades, she now feels that it is time to share her art and so is beginning to exhibit publically. She hopes that others will enjoy and be inspired by her art to appreciate the beauty that is everywhere around us and to celebrate the wonder of existence.

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