Cheryl Derricotte

Cheryl Patrice Derricotte is an American visual artist working mostly with glass and paper.

Both materials are translucent and seemingly fragile, yet they are hearty enough to survive the passage of time between civilizations.

"[6] In 2019 she was part of the “Ancestral Journeys” exhibition at the Euphrat Museum of Art,[7] an exhibition which "spotlights self-identity, family history, immigration, and diasporas..."[8] Her awards include a San Francisco Individual Artist Commission; Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellowship for Artists; the Rick and Val Beck Scholarship for Glass;[9] Emerging Artist at the Museum of the African Diaspora;[10] Gardarev Center Fellow;[11] Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’ Visionary Scholarship,[12] D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities/ National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant,[13] San Francisco Individual Artist Commission,[14] and a Puffin Foundation Grant.

[15] Derricotte is the current Secretary/The Minister of Information for Three Point Nine Art Collective,[16][17] a group of San Francisco area Black artists.

[18] She is also the Chief Mindfulness Officer of Crux,[19] a U.S. nationwide cooperative of Black artists "working at the intersection of art and technology through immersive storytelling (Virtual Reality).