Laura Petrovich-Cheney Portfolios

Laura Petrovich-Cheney is a visual artist interested in textiles, woodworking, and the personal impact of climate change. Her recent sculptures invite a dialogue between individual and environmental matters, inspired by traditional women’s arts like needlework, weaving and quilting. She repurposes discarded remnants to create her sculptures, seeking signs of personal histories, identity, and memory.

Laura's artwork is exhibited nationally in solo shows, such as Against the Grain exhibition at Berea College in Kentucky, Memory and Material at the International Quilt Museum, Nebraska, and What Remains at the Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts; and in group shows such as Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH and Pattern Pieces with Kaffe Fassett, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. Her latest exhibit, Weathered Shapes, Wooden Quilts, was currently on display at the Boston Children’s Museum.

Laura’s work has been featured in multiple national and international publications, including television, podcasts, and NPR radio. Additionally, her work has been published in The Boston Globe, American Craft, Uppercase Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others, recently her work has graced the Summer 2023 cover of the James Renwick Alliance Quarterly Craft.

Her achievements have been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Park Service, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, and the Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists. In 2017, she received the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, followed by the Artist Fellowship in Crafts from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2021.

In addition to her artistic practice, Laura maintains an active teaching schedule and presents workshops nationwide. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and English Literature from Dickinson College, an MS in Fashion Design from Drexel University, and an MFA in Studio Arts from Moore College of Art and Design. Laura resides in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with her husband, a cat, a dog, and a hive of honeybees.

Biography

Laura Petrovich-Cheney is a visual artist interested in textiles, woodworking, and the personal impact of climate change. Her recent sculptures invite a dialogue between individual and environmental matters, inspired by traditional women’s arts like needlework, weaving and quilting. She repurposes discarded remnants to create her sculptures, seeking signs of personal histories, identity, and memory.

Laura's artwork is exhibited nationally in solo shows, such as Against the Grain exhibition at Berea College in Kentucky, Memory and Material at the International Quilt Museum, Nebraska, and What Remains at the Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts; and in group shows such as Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH and Pattern Pieces with Kaffe Fassett, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. Her latest exhibit, Weathered Shapes, Wooden Quilts, was currently on display at the Boston Children’s Museum.

Laura’s work has been featured in multiple national and international publications, including television, podcasts, and NPR radio. Additionally, her work has been published in The Boston Globe, American Craft, Uppercase Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others, recently her work has graced the Summer 2023 cover of the James Renwick Alliance Quarterly Craft.

Her achievements have been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Park Service, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, and the Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists. In 2017, she received the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, followed by the Artist Fellowship in Crafts from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2021.

In addition to her artistic practice, Laura maintains an active teaching schedule and presents workshops nationwide. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and English Literature from Dickinson College, an MS in Fashion Design from Drexel University, and an MFA in Studio Arts from Moore College of Art and Design. Laura resides in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with her husband, a cat, a dog, and a hive of honeybees.