Education
Gerrit Reitveld Academie, Amsterdam, Holland, B.F.A / M.F.A Ceramics, June 1987
Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri, Fine Arts Studies, Ceramic Studio Assistant, August 1979−1981
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, B.S. Housing and Interior Design, May 1976
Professional Experience
Cheryl Brown − Cielo Clayworks, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 2014−Current
Aya Arts Project, Community Engagement Workshop Presenter, Symbols of our Heritage, Artist, A Cultural Journey, Ceramic Quilt Installation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 2020−Current
Florida Art Education Association Summer Conference, Workshop Presenter, Ceramic Surface Design and Hand Building, The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 17−18, 2016
FATVillage Center for the Arts, Ceramic Instructor, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 2014−2016
Broward County and Local PTA, Reflections Arts Program Chair: planning, coordinating, and curating of exhibits at North Andrews Gardens Elementary School, Parkway Middle School, Dillard High School, and for the county−wide program and exhibit for grades K−12, culminating in an Awards Ceremony at the Amaturo Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1999−2009
Museum of Art/ArtServe, Ceramic and Printmaking Art Instructor, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1995−1997
Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, Ceramic Art Instructor, Hollywood, Florida, 1994−1997
Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County, Art Director and Instructor: program planning, teaching, coordinating, and curating the Fine Arts Exhibit for Broward County clubs, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1990−1994
Awards
Aya Arts Project: Sailboat Bend II Community Arts Engagement & Acquisition Project, Public Art Project, Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority & Atlantic Pacific Communities, Sailboat Bend II Senior Housing Community, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 2020
ArtStART 2021: Mentoring Emerging Teenage Artists, Broward County CIP Individual Grant, Broward County, Florida, 2020
ArtStART 2020: Mentoring Emerging Teenage Artists, Broward County CIP Individual Grant, Broward County, Florida, 2019
ArtStART 2019: Mentoring Emerging Teenage Artists, Broward County CIP Individual Grant, Broward County, Florida, 2018
ArtStART 2018: Mentoring Emerging Teenage Artists, Broward County CIP Individual Grant, Broward County, Florida, 2017
ArtStART 2017: Mentoring Emerging Teenage Artists, Broward County CIP Individual Grant, Broward County, Florida, 2016
Sistrunk Artist in Residency, Broward County Cultural Division, Broward County, Florida, 2016
ArtStART 2016: Mentoring Emerging Teenage Artists, Broward County CIP Individual Grant, Broward County, Florida, 2015
Public Works
Aya Arts Public Art Project, A Cultural Journey, Ceramic Quilt Installation, Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority & Atlantic Pacific Communities, Sailboat Bend II Senior Housing Community, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2021
Solo Shows
Structures, Art Trax Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 28−October 21, 2019
Cielo Clayworks Marketplace, Art Trax Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 29−October 22, 2018
Galerie Punt-Gaaf, Groningen, Holland, January−February 1988
Juried Group Shows
The Salon: Explorations of Change, ArtServe at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 12, 2020−February 2021
DBA Textured 2019, Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute, ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 12−28, 2019
Art Fort Lauderdale Fair on the Water, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 24−27, 2019
Art Fort Lauderdale Fair on the Water, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 25−28, 2018
What’s Your Elephant, 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 15−September 12, 2017
All Florida Exhibition, Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, June 17−July 8, 2017
WAKE UP, House of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 7−21, 2017
3D & Photography Exhibit, Honorable Mention, Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, May 4−19, 2016
Help−Hope Nepal, Spectrum Miami Art, Contemporary Arts Projects, Miami, Florida, Art Basel Week, December 2−6, 2015
Summer Heat VI, Rossetti Fine Art, Wilton Manors, Florida, July 17−August 16, 2015
Tri−County Biennial, Broward Art Guild at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 13−May 1, 2015
Black & White Exhibit, Broward Art Guild Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 4−27, 2015
Fort Mason Winter Exhibit, San Francisco, California, December 1985
Ceremonial & Liturgical Objects, Honorable Mention, Craft Alliance Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, August 1981
Group Shows
REFLECT: Art as Healing Therapy, ArtServe at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 7−May 25, 2018
unWrapped, ArtServe at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Dec 7, 2016−January 6, 2017
Mercado Mix, House of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 12, 2016
RedEye, ArtServe at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 3−August 7, 2015
InSIDE Out: Art as Healing Therapy, ArtServe at ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 8−May 29, 2015
Clay Art 2015, Broward Potters Guild at Anne Kolb Nature Center, Hollywood, Florida, March 9−31, 2015
Faculty Exhibit, FAT Village Center for the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 31−February 28, 2015
Taste of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 14, 2014
Faculty Exhibit, Hollywood Art and Cultural Center, Hollywood, Florida, December 1996
Expositie Start ’87, Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn, Holland, October 1987
20 Jonge Kunstenaars, Singer Museum, Laren, Holland, July 1987
Twenty Americans in Clay, Slide Presentation, Paris, France, Athens, Heraklion, and Istanbul, 1984