The Ice House at Mt. Vernon, 2019

Kiln formed glass

11" x 14" x 0.25"

Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist and her favorite mediums are glass, paper and textiles. Originally from Washington, DC, she lives and makes art in San Francisco, CA. Her art has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, MerciSF and the San Francisco Business Times.

From July 17-21, 2024, Cheryl will be a Visiting Artist at the Museum of Glass (MoG) in Tacoma, WA, commensurate with her work in the ground-breaking MoG exhibition, "A Two Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists." Prior to MoG, Cheryl served as the Spring 2024 Marva and John Warnock Artist-in-Residence/Visiting Professor at the University of Utah, Department of Art and Art History. She is 2023/2024 Kala Art Institute, Municipal Artist-in-Residence for the City of Berkeley's Climate Equity Pilot Program. In 2022, Cheryl was named Inaugural BIPOC Artist-in-Residence at the Corning Museum of Glass: The Studio.

Cheryl was an inaugural Emerging Artist at the Museum of the African Diaspora in 2015/2016, on the occasion of the Museum's 10th Anniversary. She became known for bringing the images of formerly enslaved people to life through the medium of glass. In 2021, she was awarded the commission to develop a monument to Harriet Tubman at the transit-oriented development Gateway at Millbrae Station, the first sculptural tribute to the abolitionist in glass. Entitled "Freedom's Threshold," the monument was unveiled on March 16, 2023. The work in Kala's auction, "The Ice-House at Mount Vernon," is based on a historic drawing and portrays two people who were enslaved on founding U.S. President George Washington's plantation.

Courtesy of the Artist and re.riddle Gallery, San Francisco, CA