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ABOUT SHONA SCULPTURE WEST
Our mission at Shona Sculpture West is twofold:
1- to help create an economic market whose revenue will provide income
to Shona tribes people, most of whom live in rural areas of Zimbabwe
at a time in that country’s history when eking out a subsistence
living is increasingly difficult; and
2- in collaboration with Colin Thompson of Zimbabwe Galleries (Oxford,
PA),
himself a member of the Shona tribe, to bring to American consciousness
a three-dimensional art form that is not well-known in the States, but
is considered internationally as one of the most significant forms of
sculpture in the world.
Contact Information:
Shona Sculpture West
Gallery 821
Donald Burnes, Dealer (For best results, contact Burnes directly at:
303-388-6900 - phone
303-388-0923 - fax
donburnes@earthlink.net
Gallery 821
821 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
720-904-1211
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, Noon to 5 pm; and by appointment.
Gallery 821 is honored to be the only gallery in Denver where Shona
sculpture is available for purchase, at very affordable prices, especially
given the overwhelmingly positive response to Chapungu, the Shona sculpture
exhibit in 2004 at Denver’s Botanic Gardens.
The pieces of sculpture
at Gallery 821 are all small to medium in size. To see our portfolio
of sculptures visit our online
gallery. .) For those collectors interested in larger pieces, please
contact Donald Burnes.
About Donald Burnes
During and after his educational training—BA
from Princeton in 1963, MA Ed from Washington University, St. Louis
in 1967; and PhD in Politics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia
in 1975---Burnes worked for 20 years in the field of educational research
and evaluation, mostly in Washington, DC at the National Institute of
Education, part of the Department of Education. In 1989, in collaboration
with his late wife, Alice Baum, he began research for a book on homelessness,
following two and a half years of work with the homeless in the District
of Columbia. Their book, A Nation in Denial: The Truth about Homelessness,
published in 1994, is considered a ground-breaking work on the subject.
Almost 10 years ago, Burnes, while on
a research field trip in Philadelphia, first encountered Shona sculpture
at Colin Thompson’s Zimbabwe Gallery in that city. Since then,
Burnes, enthralled by this art form, has collected over one dozen Shona
sculptures, and for the last eight years has been the Western Representative
for Thompson, first in Southern California and now in Denver, where
he currently lives with his new wife, Lynn.
TO SEE MORE SCULPTURE: Visit
out sister site, Shonasculpture.com
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