Albert T. Scherbarth | 1955 – 2026

This year's tour is dedicated to the memory of Albert T. Scherbarth, a longtime Cedars artist and one of the neighborhood's earliest champions, who passed away in February at age 70. The 2026 tour's featured artwork, "Ginko Bright," is one of Scherbarth's own pieces, shown against faded passages pulled from his handwritten pages of notes, a glimpse of the process-driven approach he brought to his work.

Albert first arrived in The Cedars in the early 1980s, when the neighborhood was little more than a quiet stretch of abandoned warehouses south of downtown — rough, cheap, and full of energetic, talented artists carving out space of their own. He was one of the artists who saw something else in it, and helped turn that vision into reality. In the 1990s Albert purchased the building that would become his longtime studio and home, going on to build a body of work that moved fluidly across printmaking, ceramics, furniture, glass, concrete, and steel, including supporting the neighborhood's beloved Bowler Hat sculpture, still on public display today.

His studio became more than a workspace. It became a gathering place and a featured studio on this year’s tour, where a special exhibition of his work will be on display. His generosity of spirit is a big part of why so many Cedars artists still point to Albert as the reason they create.

That same spirit of creative vision is what visitors will find throughout this year's tour. Each one part of the same creative community Albert helped build.

See Albert’s work at Rule Six | 2527 King St. | STOP #32