EDUCATION
MFA, Studio Art, summa cum laude, MOORE COLLEGE OF ART, Philadelphia, PA
MS, Fashion Design, magna cum laude, DREXEL UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA
BA, Fine Arts and English Literature, DICKINSON COLLEGE, Carlisle, PA
MA Course work, New York University, Steinhardt School, Summer Program in Studio Art, Venice Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Wood Quilts, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
2020 Reconstruction, Berger Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
2019 Against the Grain, Berea College, Berea, KY
2018 Memory and Material, International Quilt Study Center and Museum, Lincoln, NE
2018 Life in Patterns, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
2017 Stitched in Wood, Chadron State College, Chardon, NE
2017 Left Behind: Sandy Quilts, Atlantic Highlands Arts Council Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
2016-2017 What Remains: Wooden Quilt Sculptures, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2016 On Track, Broadway Gallery, South Amboy, NJ
2016 Piece by Piece, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
2015 Around the Block, John Sloan Art Center Gallery, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
2015 By the Block, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
2014 Block Party, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Wood Quilts, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Best and Brightest, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2021
PMA Craft Fair, Moore College of Art and Design Booth, Philadelphia, PA
ArtPoetica, Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Here & There Alumni Invitational, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2020-2021
Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, curated by Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2019
Domestic Matters, curated by Gail M Brown, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
Material Message, curated by Mat Tomezsko, Hunter College, New York, NY
2018
How’s Your Weather?, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Pattern and Structure, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Conversations with Gee’s Bend, San Juan Islands Art Museum, San Juan Island, Washington State
Pattern and Structure, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Unnatural History, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2017
Beyond the Bedcovers, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Memory Quilt Project, Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Providence, RI
Reinventions, Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Gallery, Middletown, NJ (three person)
Chamber of Commerce Public Exhibit, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Imagine Your Park Public Sculpture Exhibit, Sandy Hook National Park, NJ
Parallel Dimensions, Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI (three person)
The Art of Refuse, curated by Anne Trauben, The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Pattern Pieces, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Tipping Points: Artists Address the Climate Crises, curated by Amy Lipton, Gallery Bergen, Paramus, NJ
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Dev Technology Corporation, Fairfax, VA Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE
Isaac Sprague Elementary School, Wellesley, MA
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
John Sloan Art Center Gallery, Lock Haven University, PA
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
MD Anderson Cooper Hospital Cancer Center, Camden, NJ
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Montvale, NJ
Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
PNC New Jersey Headquarters, Cherry Hill, NJ
PNC Tower, Pittsburgh, PA
Radian Private Mortgage Insurance, Denver, CO
Sculpture Park, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
State of New Jersey, Community Affairs, Trenton, NJ
Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., Jersey City, NJ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cate McQuaid, Exhibits to See This Weekend, The Boston Globe, Nov 26, 2021
The Quilt District, Video Review, October 2021
Detroit Institute of Arts, On Line Studio Visit, November 4, 2021
Janine Vangool , Art Quilts, UPPERCASE Magazine, issue 51, page 74
Measure Twice, Cut Once Podcast, Stitched with Susan, November 03, 2021 Season 1 Episode 32
Caroline Kipp, Curator of the Textile Museum, Social Distance Studio Visit
Lindsay Podolak, The Best of New Jersey, UpCycled Artsits, Feb. 2021
Alexandra Pecci, All The Rights Moves, North Shore Homes, Winter 2021
Kestrel Michaud, Quilt Folk Magazine, issue 16, November 2020
Pamela Reyonlds, Fuller Craft Exhibition ‘Shelter, Place, Social Distance’ Explores the Covid 19 Lexicon, WBUR.org, Aug 2020
The Wood Shop Video, https://youtu.be/M8ptQAvhLUs, The Center for Art in Wood, July 2020
Whimsy Wood Art Quilts, Curated Quilts Magazine, issue 12, July 2020
Alia Jeraj, Material Memory, American Craft Magazine, February/March 2020
Janine Vangool, Quilted: An Encyclopedia, pages 182-191, Uppercase publications 2019
Jacqueline Klecak, Six Must See Art Shows in February, New Jersey Monthly Magazine, January 29,2020
Bill Goodman, Think Humanities, NPR Kentucky University Station Podcast, Feb. 1, 2019
Yoav Liberman, The Reclaimed Wood Art of Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Popular Woodworking Blog, Dec 9, 2018
Kent Wolgamott, Quilt Center Exhibition opts for wood over cloth, Lincoln Journal Star, Oct. 31, 2018
Robin Brett Wechsler, Students Finish Unique Project, Wellseley Selectman, Nov. 9, 2018
Janay Velez, Selvage: Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Homespun Magazine, (Australia), March 2018, p. 16-17
Shirley Moskow, What Remains: Wooden Quilt Sculptures Review, Art New England, July/August 2017, p. 73
Quilting Arts Magazine, “Spotlight,” June- July 2017, issue 87, pages 42-49
Quilts and Health Project, Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, Beth Donaldson, Indiana University Press 2017, p37-8
UPPERCASE Magazine, issue #30, Cover and feature article, Summer 2016
Marcia Young, “Blanket Statements,” Fiber Art Now Magazine, August 2015
Stephanie Soebbing, “Pattern Pieces,” Quilt Addicts Anonymous Blog ,Nov. 16, 2015
Reagan Medgie, “Art from Superstorm Sandy,” The Weather Channel, New York, Oct. 29, 2015
Mike Giuliano, “Howard Arts Council Launches Engaging Visual Arts Season,” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 10, 2015
John Bathke, “On the Scene: By the Block,” TV News 12 NJ, Edison, NJ, August 28, 29, 2015, Oct. 28, 2015
Joanna Buffum, “Creating Art from Sandy’s Wreckage,” New Jersey Monthly Magazine, July 2015, page 19.
Erica Motter, “Giving New Life,” Williamsport Sun-Gazette, February 19, 2015, page 6
Kevin Coughlin, “Putting the Pieces Back after Sandy”, MorristownGreen.com, September 12, 2014
Private Equity International, Cover, December/January 2014
Blouin ArtInfo.com – Week #8 Summer Friday Selected Artist, August 10, 2012
Nancy Shields, “Public Art Graces Asbury Park and Long Branch”, Asbury Park Press, June 29, 2012
Bora Mici, Female Artists Take Up Environmental Message, Gaithersburg’s Patch, June 27, 2012
Moore College of Art & Design, 2011-12 Graduate Studies Admission Catalog, page 16.
Currently Represented by
Ray Wiggs Gallery, Provincetown, MA
EDUCATION
MFA, Studio Art, summa cum laude, MOORE COLLEGE OF ART, Philadelphia, PA
MS, Fashion Design, magna cum laude, DREXEL UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA
BA, Fine Arts and English Literature, DICKINSON COLLEGE, Carlisle, PA
MA Course work, New York University, Steinhardt School, Summer Program in Studio Art, Venice Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Wood Quilts, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
2020 Reconstruction, Berger Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
2019 Against the Grain, Berea College, Berea, KY
2018 Memory and Material, International Quilt Study Center and Museum, Lincoln, NE
2018 Life in Patterns, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
2017 Stitched in Wood, Chadron State College, Chardon, NE
2017 Left Behind: Sandy Quilts, Atlantic Highlands Arts Council Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
2016-2017 What Remains: Wooden Quilt Sculptures, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2016 On Track, Broadway Gallery, South Amboy, NJ
2016 Piece by Piece, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
2015 Around the Block, John Sloan Art Center Gallery, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
2015 By the Block, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
2014 Block Party, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Wood Quilts, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Best and Brightest, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2021
PMA Craft Fair, Moore College of Art and Design Booth, Philadelphia, PA
ArtPoetica, Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Here & There Alumni Invitational, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2020-2021
Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, curated by Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2019
Domestic Matters, curated by Gail M Brown, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
Material Message, curated by Mat Tomezsko, Hunter College, New York, NY
2018
How’s Your Weather?, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Pattern and Structure, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Conversations with Gee’s Bend, San Juan Islands Art Museum, San Juan Island, Washington State
Pattern and Structure, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Unnatural History, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2017
Beyond the Bedcovers, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Memory Quilt Project, Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Providence, RI
Reinventions, Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Gallery, Middletown, NJ (three person)
Chamber of Commerce Public Exhibit, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Imagine Your Park Public Sculpture Exhibit, Sandy Hook National Park, NJ
Parallel Dimensions, Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI (three person)
The Art of Refuse, curated by Anne Trauben, The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Pattern Pieces, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Tipping Points: Artists Address the Climate Crises, curated by Amy Lipton, Gallery Bergen, Paramus, NJ
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Dev Technology Corporation, Fairfax, VA Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE
Isaac Sprague Elementary School, Wellesley, MA
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
John Sloan Art Center Gallery, Lock Haven University, PA
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
MD Anderson Cooper Hospital Cancer Center, Camden, NJ
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Montvale, NJ
Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
PNC New Jersey Headquarters, Cherry Hill, NJ
PNC Tower, Pittsburgh, PA
Radian Private Mortgage Insurance, Denver, CO
Sculpture Park, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
State of New Jersey, Community Affairs, Trenton, NJ
Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., Jersey City, NJ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cate McQuaid, Exhibits to See This Weekend, The Boston Globe, Nov 26, 2021
The Quilt District, Video Review, October 2021
Detroit Institute of Arts, On Line Studio Visit, November 4, 2021
Janine Vangool , Art Quilts, UPPERCASE Magazine, issue 51, page 74
Measure Twice, Cut Once Podcast, Stitched with Susan, November 03, 2021 Season 1 Episode 32
Caroline Kipp, Curator of the Textile Museum, Social Distance Studio Visit
Lindsay Podolak, The Best of New Jersey, UpCycled Artsits, Feb. 2021
Alexandra Pecci, All The Rights Moves, North Shore Homes, Winter 2021
Kestrel Michaud, Quilt Folk Magazine, issue 16, November 2020
Pamela Reyonlds, Fuller Craft Exhibition ‘Shelter, Place, Social Distance’ Explores the Covid 19 Lexicon, WBUR.org, Aug 2020
The Wood Shop Video, https://youtu.be/M8ptQAvhLUs, The Center for Art in Wood, July 2020
Whimsy Wood Art Quilts, Curated Quilts Magazine, issue 12, July 2020
Alia Jeraj, Material Memory, American Craft Magazine, February/March 2020
Janine Vangool, Quilted: An Encyclopedia, pages 182-191, Uppercase publications 2019
Jacqueline Klecak, Six Must See Art Shows in February, New Jersey Monthly Magazine, January 29,2020
Bill Goodman, Think Humanities, NPR Kentucky University Station Podcast, Feb. 1, 2019
Yoav Liberman, The Reclaimed Wood Art of Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Popular Woodworking Blog, Dec 9, 2018
Kent Wolgamott, Quilt Center Exhibition opts for wood over cloth, Lincoln Journal Star, Oct. 31, 2018
Robin Brett Wechsler, Students Finish Unique Project, Wellseley Selectman, Nov. 9, 2018
Janay Velez, Selvage: Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Homespun Magazine, (Australia), March 2018, p. 16-17
Shirley Moskow, What Remains: Wooden Quilt Sculptures Review, Art New England, July/August 2017, p. 73
Quilting Arts Magazine, “Spotlight,” June- July 2017, issue 87, pages 42-49
Quilts and Health Project, Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, Beth Donaldson, Indiana University Press 2017, p37-8
UPPERCASE Magazine, issue #30, Cover and feature article, Summer 2016
Marcia Young, “Blanket Statements,” Fiber Art Now Magazine, August 2015
Stephanie Soebbing, “Pattern Pieces,” Quilt Addicts Anonymous Blog ,Nov. 16, 2015
Reagan Medgie, “Art from Superstorm Sandy,” The Weather Channel, New York, Oct. 29, 2015
Mike Giuliano, “Howard Arts Council Launches Engaging Visual Arts Season,” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 10, 2015
John Bathke, “On the Scene: By the Block,” TV News 12 NJ, Edison, NJ, August 28, 29, 2015, Oct. 28, 2015
Joanna Buffum, “Creating Art from Sandy’s Wreckage,” New Jersey Monthly Magazine, July 2015, page 19.
Erica Motter, “Giving New Life,” Williamsport Sun-Gazette, February 19, 2015, page 6
Kevin Coughlin, “Putting the Pieces Back after Sandy”, MorristownGreen.com, September 12, 2014
Private Equity International, Cover, December/January 2014
Blouin ArtInfo.com – Week #8 Summer Friday Selected Artist, August 10, 2012
Nancy Shields, “Public Art Graces Asbury Park and Long Branch”, Asbury Park Press, June 29, 2012
Bora Mici, Female Artists Take Up Environmental Message, Gaithersburg’s Patch, June 27, 2012
Moore College of Art & Design, 2011-12 Graduate Studies Admission Catalog, page 16.
Currently Represented by
Ray Wiggs Gallery, Provincetown, MA