Linda Hoffman working on one of her many sculptures in her studio at Old Frog Pond Farm.
An honors graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Fine Arts, Linda Hoffman studied at the Sorbonne and at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship after graduating from college, she trained for two years in the Noh Theater in Kyoto, Japan.
A lifelong passion for poetry converged in 1981 with her work as a graphic artist in the form of her first sculpture, a poem in cloth, launching an extensive exploration of narrative sculpture incorporating language, natural fibers, wood, stone, and found objects. In 1997, she began using old agricultural tools to create lyrical and poignant sculptures decrying New England’s vanishing agricultural landscape. Represented in museums and private collections, Hoffman has public sculptures installed in towns and cities across the region.
A contributor to WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Hoffman was a founding editor of Wild Apples, a journal of nature, art, and inquiry. She is the author of three chapbooks of art and poetry, and the letterpress art book, Winter Air, created in memory of her mother, Dr. Annette Weiner.
In 2001, Hoffman and her three children moved into an old farmhouse with an abandoned orchard, Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, Massachusetts. Hoffman restored the orchard and it became the first organic pick-your-own orchard in Massachusetts. Now, with twenty years of experience growing organic apples, Hoffman contributes to a holistic apple growers’ forum, teaches workshops, and is respected by an influential holistic apple growing community.
Hoffman lives with her partner, Blase, his parrot, Orco, and friends who move in for a few days, weeks, or a season who are part of the farm’s growing creative and spiritual community. A Zen Buddhist, Hoffman leads mediatation three monrings a week in her studio. In 2021 The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir, her first book was published by Loom Press.
Refuge, bronze
A Tree Grows in Brookline
The Faucet (detail)
From One Apple
Just Sitting, one of five sculptures purchased by the Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA 2018
Grafting a Life, Linda Hoffman and Ariel Matisse
Detail from Grafting A Life, Linda Hoffman and Ariel Matisse
Floating Hearts, in collaboration with Gabrielle White, Around the Pond and Through the Woods, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Harvard, MA
Partial View of Installation
Forest Tales, Stow Conservation Trust, Leggett Woods Thirteen sculptures for you to discover along the wooded trail.
Caps for Sale
Mother and Child
The Elliot Tree, Ten Acre Elementary School, Wellesley, MA Bronze sculpture in tribute to retiring headmaster, Christopher Elliot in collaboration with Ariel Matisse.
Harvard UU Church, A new chalice
