IAM Creativity: Visual Arts Panelists
Schroeder Cherry
Originally from Washington, D.C., Dr. Schroeder Cherry is now an award-winning, Maryland-based artist who captures everyday scenes of African diaspora life. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and Puppetry from The University of Michigan; a Master’s degree in Museum Education from George Washington University; and a Doctorate in Museum Education from Columbia University. His works are found in private and public collections across the US. He has also performed puppetry across the US in museums, cultural centers, libraries and schools. Cherry was a 2019 Sondheim competition finalist. In 2021 he received an Individual Artist Award from Maryland State Arts Council. In 2024 he visited Brazil on an Artists Travel Grant awarded by the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore.
Cherry has worked in seven US museums, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, J.Paul Getty Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and Maryland Historical Society. He has held senior grantmaker positions at Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, first as Deputy Director of Museums, and later Counselor to the Director. He has taught graduate museum studies at Morgan State University, and in 2021 was appointed Curator of Morgan’s James E. Lewis Museum of Art.
Frank McCauly
Frank McCauley was born in Jacksonville, FL in 1980. Upon receiving his BFA in painting from Winthrop University in 2003, he moved north to Syracuse, NY where he attended Syracuse University and received his MFA in 2008. Frank has been the Director and Curator for Spark Contemporary Art Space in Syracuse, NY, the Assistant Director and Chief Curator for the Sumter County Gallery of Art, and is currently the Gallery Director and Curator for VisArts in Rockville, MD. As an artist he has been in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has had solo exhibitions in SC, Washington D.C., CA, NY, as well as South America.
Sheena M. Morrison
Sheena M. Morrison is an independent curator with a background in public health policy. It was a natural segue from her work in public health to a curatorial practice where one of the primary tenets is also effective community engagement. Her practice is informed by a decades long interest in the intersection of public policy, social activism and contemporary art.
She currently advocates on behalf of the next generation of artists at a non-profit arts
organization in Baltimore City championing equitable access to the arts for all students
attending school in the district. Sheena holds an MFA in curatorial practice from Maryland Institute College of Art, an MPhil in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University and an MPH in community health education from Hunter College.