Bio
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 American Craft, Uppercase Magazine, The Boston Globe, 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.

Laura maintains an active teaching practice and presents national workshops. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and English Literature from Dickinson College, an MS degree in Fashion Design from Drexel University, and an MFA in Studio Arts from Moore College of Art and Design.