Like jazz, each sculpture is both premeditated and improvisational, incorporating structural forms of ancient-styled instruments with her personal, sculptural journey. While the sculpture emerges, it finds its own voice, a palette of pitches and textures. Viewers are invited to explore them. Performance artists are invited to compose with them. 

Berman exhibits in traditional and untraditional settings: galleries, jazz clubs, television, theatres, hospitals, parks, colleges and homes. She has had both solo and group exhibits/performances/jam sessions in and around New York City and abroad, including The Gallery at Lincoln Center, Studio Gallery 88, The Museum of Natural History/Kwanza festivalR), Schomburg Museum, The Vivien Beaumont Theatre/Marie Christine, Brooklyn Academy of Music/Force of Nature Dance Co.; Bank Street College/Jazz with Sculpture, a collaboration with percussionist, David Pleasant (www.davidpleasant1.com), often joined by vocalist, Miles Griffith (www.milesgriffithmusic.com);  The University of Haifa, Israel/performance & lecture about Jazz with Sculpture collaboration, Experimentation Festival, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition/performance with Paula Jeanine, lyricist, musician (www.paulajeanine.com).  Percussive Sculptures are also the stage set for phatLiterature, a literary T.V. series presently being aired nationwide on cable TV, which includes her video biography, Visual Signatures. Her work is also featured on Noggin network, Jack’s Big Music Show, with Pleasant’s RiddimAthon!TMInc. 

Sculpture-inspired choreography is the basis of her Improvisational collaboration with dancer/mime, Karen Montanaro (www.mimetheatre.com). 

"My Sculpture Survived Hurricane Irene" my 3 minute video on:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkanrpuIZc

*That work led to the present Site-Sculpture series, "The Dance Company". The first piece, "Black and Blue", was installed in Morningside Gardens, NYC on July 2009. The community now wants as many sculptures as I can produce. The next piece, an homage to Merce Cunningham, is in progress now. The community across the street, The Grant Houses, recently voted to have one of my sculptures  "dance across the street". My goal is for my work to unify and beautify the neighborhoods, especially ones that are often neglected, such as the NYCHA Housing Developments, which have an abundance of land perfect for sculpture installations.

See documentary film by Dylan Morgan, "The Making of "The Dance Company" sculpture series, featuring "Black and Blue":

Berman, an author and art educator with a Ms. Ed. in Leadership in the Arts. For 21 years, at Bank Street College of Education and School for Children, she created and implements a developmentally appropriate, inter-disciplinary sculpture and musical instrument-making curricula for ages K-8 for all learning styles, including those with physical challenges. She also teaches graduate students, teachers and administrators, in the private and public schools, how to create and teach sculpture in any setting with any budget. She often collaborates with artists and educators in a variety of disciplines.